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Article: Church involvement, ethnocentrism, and voting for a radical right-wing party: diverging behavioral outcomes of equal attitudinal dispositions.
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- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
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At the plenary session of the XXIIth International Conference for Sociology of Religion in Budapest on 23 June 1993, a participant asked what actions the churches had to undertake in order to stimulate the social integration of the Muslim immigrants in Europe "now that the European Value Study has demonstrated that intolerance against immigrants in the European countries was the highest among the practicing Catholics." I was very surprised by that question, since in recent social surveys in Belgium on ethnocentrism (1989) and political attitudes and voting behavior (1991-92), it had been shown that, after controlling for other relevant variables like age and education, a ...