Cross-cultural insight into the association between religiousness and authoritarianism

Archive for the Psychology of Religion

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 177-190

  Flere, Sergej ^a   Klanjšek, Rudi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Authoritarianism; Bosnian Islam; Religious orientation; Religiousness; Serbian orthodoxy; Slovenian Catholicism; Us Protestantism

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849100878     PISSN: 00846724     EISSN: 15736121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157361209X424448     Document Type: Article

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