Individual Religiosity and Orientation towards Science: Reformulating Relationships

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dc.citation.firstpage106en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleSociological Scienceen_US
dc.citation.lastpage124en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber2en_US
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, David R.en_US
dc.contributor.authorScheitle, Christopher P.en_US
dc.contributor.authorEcklund, Elaine Howarden_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-09T20:14:51Zen_US
dc.date.available2015-07-09T20:14:51Zen_US
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractThe religion-science relationship has been the focus of a growing body of research. Such analyses have often suffered from poorly specified concepts related to religion and to science. At the individual level, scholars often assume that an individual's religiosity will affect her orientation towards science. But an orientation towards science consists of several sub-concepts, each of which may have a unique relationship, or lack thereof, with religiosity. We use observed measures from the 2008 General Social Survey to build latent variables representing science orientation sub-concepts and assess their relationships using structural equation modeling. We find that religiosity has no significant association with interest in or knowledge of science. Religiosity does, however, have a significant negative association with confidence in science. This suggests that the lack of faith in science held by religious individuals is not a product of interest or ignorance, but is instead based on theological or institutional reservations.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJohnson, David R., Scheitle, Christopher P. and Ecklund, Elaine Howard. "Individual Religiosity and Orientation towards Science: Reformulating Relationships." <i>Sociological Science,</i> 2, (2015) Sociological Science: 106-124. http://dx.doi.org/10.15195/v2.a7.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.15195/v2.a7en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/80873en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSociological Scienceen_US
dc.rightsThis open-access article has been published under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction, in any form, as long as the original author and source have been credited.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subject.keywordreligionen_US
dc.subject.keywordscienceen_US
dc.subject.keywordconflicten_US
dc.subject.keywordpublic understanding of scienceen_US
dc.subject.keywordstructural equation modelingen_US
dc.titleIndividual Religiosity and Orientation towards Science: Reformulating Relationshipsen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.publicationpublisher versionen_US
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