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| Published: June 30, 2022
Atheist-Prejudice in India as Related to Religiosity
Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.143.20221002
DOI: 10.25215/1002.143
ABSTRACT
This study highlights the levels of Anti-atheist prejudice in relationship to religiosity in Indian population. Religiosity is the state of being religious, having a belief in God or higher power and is inclusive of institutional practices or rituals together with a commitment to organized religion. Anti-atheist prejudice is the negative attitude towards people who do not believe in God which is inclusive of attitudes like perceived immorality, untrustworthy and even criminal intent. This study has incorporated the use of standardised questionnaires of ‘Dimensions of Religiosity Scale’ to measure religiosity; and ‘Negative attitude towards Atheist Scale’ and ‘Atheist Negativity Scale’ to measure anti-atheist prejudice in people of Indian nationality (N=166) gathered with use of convenience and snowball sampling. A significant positive relationship was found between anti-atheist prejudice and domains of religiosity in Indian population. Religiosity along with its dimensions of Pre-occupation, Conviction, Emotional Involvement and Guidance, have also found to be significant predictors of anti-atheist prejudice. This paper can support the findings done by researches in the western countries wherein the relationship between religiosity and anti-atheist prejudice have been explored and has replicated similar results in the Indian setting.
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© 2022, Chhetri P. & Rai S.
Received: February 25, 2022; Revision Received: June 28, 2022; Accepted: June 30, 2022
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.143.20221002
10.25215/1002.143
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Published in Volume 10, Issue 2, April-June, 2022