Individual Religiosity and Orientation towards Science: Reformulating Relationships

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dc.citation.firstpage106
dc.citation.journalTitleSociological Science
dc.citation.lastpage124
dc.citation.volumeNumber2
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, David R.
dc.contributor.authorScheitle, Christopher P.
dc.contributor.authorEcklund, Elaine Howard
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-09T20:14:51Z
dc.date.available2015-07-09T20:14:51Z
dc.date.issued2015
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.
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.
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.15195/v2.a7
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/80873
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSociological Science
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.
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.keywordreligion
dc.subject.keywordscience
dc.subject.keywordconflict
dc.subject.keywordpublic understanding of science
dc.subject.keywordstructural equation modeling
dc.titleIndividual Religiosity and Orientation towards Science: Reformulating Relationships
dc.typeJournal article
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