How Does Race Moderate the Effect of Religion Dimensions on Attitudes toward the Death Penalty?

Soheil Sabriseilabi, James Williams and Mahmoud Sadri
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Soheil Sabriseilabi: Anthropology, Sociology, and Criminology, Troy University, Troy, AL 36082, USA
James Williams: Social Sciences and Historical Studies, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX 76204, USA
Mahmoud Sadri: Social Sciences and Historical Studies, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX 76204, USA

Societies, 2022, vol. 12, issue 2, 1-11

Abstract: We examined the moderating role of race on the relationship between religion and death penalty attitudes in the United States. We operationalized religion by distinguishing four dimensions: religiosity, spirituality, afterlife beliefs, and denomination. Using 2018 General Social Survey data from 1054 adults, collected by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, we show that the impact of each dimension of religion varies across racial groups. Logistic Regression results showed that the likelihood of support for the death penalty was associated with religiosity, spirituality, belief in hell, being female, and being liberal. Adding race as an interaction term moderated the associations of religiosity and spirituality.

Keywords: religion; race; death penalty; religiosity; spirituality; denomination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 P P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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