Faith, Race-Ethnicity, and Public Policy Preferences: Religious Schemas and Abortion Attitudes Among U.S. Latinos

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 343-358

  Bartkowski, John P ^a   Ramos Wada, Aida I ^b   Ellison, Chris G ^a   Acevedo, Gabriel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Abortion; Hispanic; Latino; Religion; Schemas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862130809     PISSN: 00218294     EISSN: 14685906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5906.2012.01645.x     Document Type: Article

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