Catholics, Protestants, and the Tortured Path to Religious Liberty

Catholic Guilt? Comparing Catholics' and Protestants' Religious Motivations

Are Catholics more motivated by guilt than Protestants? I tested this hypothesis via self-determination theory's concept of introjected motivation, in which behavior is only partially internalized (Deci & Ryan, 1991). Study 1 found that 1409 Catholic undergraduates were higher in introjected motivation than 1261 Protestant undergraduates. Catholics were also lower in identified motivation, in w...

Church-State Separation, Healthcare Policy, and Religious Liberty

this paper sketches a framework for the separation of church and state and, with the framework in view, indicates why a government’s maintaining such separation poses challenges for balancing two major democratic ideals: preserving equality before the law and protecting liberty, including religious liberty. the challenge is particularly complex where healthcare is either provided or regulated b...

Protestants in an age of science. The Baconian ideal and antebellum American religious thought

The cultural debt of America to Scotland has proved a rich source for historians to mine. In Protestants in an age ofscience Theodore Bozeman has opened yet another seam and demonstrated how, for the Old School Presbyterians, Scottish thought provided a framework that stabilized for them the threatening intellectual turbulence of antebellum America. He reveals how the Common Sense philosophy se...

George W . Bush and the Evangelicals : Religious Commitment and Partisan Change among Evangelical Protestants , 1960 - 2004

Religious involvement, religious context, and self-assessed health in Europe.

In the present study, the authors examine the extent to which effects of individual religious involvement on self-assessed health are influenced by the religious context (i.e., religious involvement at the country level). The authors test their expectations using individual level data (N = 127,257) on 28 countries from the European Social Surveys (2002-2008). Results of multilevel analyses show...