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Subjective Religiosity among African Americans: A Synthesis of Findings from Five National Samples

dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Roberten_US
dc.contributor.authorMattis, Jacqueline S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorChatters, Lindaen_US
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dc.date.available2010-04-13T19:21:38Z
dc.date.issued1999en_US
dc.identifier.citationTaylor, Robert; Mattis, Jacqueline; Chatters, Linda (1999). "Subjective Religiosity among African Americans: A Synthesis of Findings from Five National Samples." Journal of Black Psychology 25(4): 524-543. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/67324>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0095-7984en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/67324
dc.description.abstractDemographic correlates of subjective religiosity are examined using data from five large national probability samples (i.e., Americans Changing Lives, n = 3,617; General Social Survey, n = 26,265; Monitoring the Future, n = 16,843; National Black Election Survey, n = 1,151; and National Survey of Black Americans, n = 2,107). In analyses of data involving both Black and White respondents, race emerges as a strong and consistent predictor of various indicators of subjective religiosity with Black Americans, indicating that they had significantly higher levels of subjective religiosity than Whites. Analyses using African American respondents only indicate that subjective religious involvement varies systematically by gender, age, region, and marital status. The findings are discussed in relation to research on religious participation among African Americans and future research and theory concerning the meaning of religion within discrete subgroups of this population.en_US
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dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_US
dc.titleSubjective Religiosity among African Americans: A Synthesis of Findings from Five National Samplesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelSociologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michiganen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michiganen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michiganen_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0095798499025004004en_US
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