Dimensions and Correlates of Religious Ideologies

Abstract

Four potentially independent dimensions of religious ideology are investigated: the orthodoxy of the belief, the fanaticism which it inspires, its importance to the self-conception, and the consciousness of ambivalence concerning the belief. Measured independently of each other, the first three are found to be directly related to each other, and the fourth inversely related to the other three. These dimensions are found to be related—but in different degree—to personality characteristics such as authoritarianism, status concern, and conservatism, and social characteristics such as region of residence, size of community, and sex.

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