The Link between Muslim Religiosity and Negative Attitudes toward the West: An Arab Study

IF 1.7 2区 哲学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Bashar Albaghli, L. Carlucci
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ABSTRACT Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world, with Muslims being the majority in 50 countries. The substantial numbers of Muslim immigrants moving to the West and the fact that Muslim values are quite different from the secular system adopted by Europeans and Americans are more reasons why it is imperative to understand their attitudes toward Westerners. The present study examined and analyzed the relationship between two types of Muslim religiosity and prejudice toward the West in an Arab-Muslim context, a region that is dominated by Muslim believers. Further, the study also examined other associated constructs to prejudice on anti-Western attitudes. Religious Fundamentalism (RF) and the intrinsic component of the Intrinsic/Extrinsic (I/E-R) scale were both used to measure Muslim religiosity in an Arab-Muslim sample of 608 participants that were collected from 17 Arab countries. Also, Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Dogmatism (DOG) were included to test their mediated effects on the relationship between Islamic religiosity and anti-Western attitudes. The results indicated that Islamic fundamentalism was the dominant predictor of unfavorable attitudes toward the West, followed by intrinsic Muslim religiosity and dogmatism. The findings also showed that RWA and DOG partially mediated the relationship between intrinsic Muslim religiosity and anti-Western attitudes. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of these findings in an Islamic context.
穆斯林宗教信仰与对西方消极态度之间的联系:阿拉伯研究
摘要伊斯兰教是世界上发展最快的宗教,穆斯林在50个国家占多数。大量穆斯林移民移居西方,穆斯林的价值观与欧洲人和美国人所采用的世俗制度截然不同,这些都是必须了解他们对西方人态度的更多原因。本研究考察并分析了在阿拉伯穆斯林背景下,两种类型的穆斯林宗教信仰和对西方的偏见之间的关系,阿拉伯穆斯林是一个由穆斯林信徒主导的地区。此外,该研究还考察了其他与反西方态度偏见相关的结构。宗教原教旨主义(RF)和内在/外在(I/E-R)量表的内在成分都被用来测量来自17个阿拉伯国家的608名阿拉伯穆斯林参与者的穆斯林宗教信仰。此外,右翼威权主义(RWA)和教条主义(DOG)也被纳入其中,以测试它们对伊斯兰宗教信仰和反西方态度之间关系的中介作用。结果表明,伊斯兰原教旨主义是对西方不利态度的主要预测因素,其次是穆斯林固有的宗教信仰和教条主义。研究结果还表明,RWA和DOG在一定程度上介导了穆斯林固有的宗教信仰和反西方态度之间的关系。论文最后讨论了这些发现在伊斯兰背景下的含义。
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期刊介绍: The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion (IJPR) is devoted to psychological studies of religious processes and phenomena in all religious traditions. This journal provides a means for sustained discussion of psychologically relevant issues that can be examined empirically and concern religion in the most general sense. It presents articles covering a variety of important topics, such as the social psychology of religion, religious development, conversion, religious experience, religion and social attitudes and behavior, religion and mental health, and psychoanalytic and other theoretical interpretations of religion. The journal publishes research reports, brief research reports, commentaries on relevant topical issues, book reviews, and statements addressing articles published in previous issues. The journal may also include a major essay and commentaries, perspective papers of the theory, and articles on the psychology of religion in a specific country.
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