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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology Année : 2014

East Asian Religious Tolerance—A Myth or a Reality? Empirical Investigations of Religious Prejudice in East Asian Societies

Magali Clobert
Vassilis Saroglou
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Kwang-Kuo Hwang
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Wen-Li Soong
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Is East Asian religious tolerance, as opposed to Western monotheistic prejudice, a stereotype or a reality? Based on theoretical and empirical evidence, we hypothesized low prejudice as a function of East Asian religiosity. We examined whether this holds true for interreligious, anti-atheist, ethnic, and anti-gay prejudice. In Study 1, analysis of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) 2008 data from Eastern religious and Christian samples in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan (total N = 3,555) showed, contrarily to Christians, high interreligious tolerance and weaker if no anti-gay prejudice as a function of Eastern religiosity. In Study 2, Eastern religiosity among Taiwanese ( n = 222) was negatively related to prejudice against various religious outgroups (except atheists), especially among those low in authoritarianism. In Study 3, Eastern religiosity among Taiwanese ( n = 102) was negatively related to implicit interreligious (Muslims) and ethnic (Africans) prejudice; prosociality partially mediated the former association. Eastern religious tolerance seems to be true, but not unlimited.
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hal-03341176 , version 1 (10-09-2021)

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Magali Clobert, Vassilis Saroglou, Kwang-Kuo Hwang, Wen-Li Soong. East Asian Religious Tolerance—A Myth or a Reality? Empirical Investigations of Religious Prejudice in East Asian Societies. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2014, 45 (10), pp.1515-1533. ⟨10.1177/0022022114546641⟩. ⟨hal-03341176⟩
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