Social scientists have devoted much attention to explaining individual and contextual variation in religiosity. Among other things, authoritarianism is reliably found to be associated with greater religiosity. Though education and human development are often thought to reduce religiosity, we show in this study that the relationship between authoritarianism and various indices of religiosity is stronger in the presence of greater educational attainment and living in a society with a higher level of human development. Using two large cross-cultural data sets from the World Values Survey, we find evidence that authoritarianism is more strongly associated with religious involvement and practice among individuals at higher levels of education and individuals living in societies with higher level of human development. Thus, we demonstrate that the connection between authoritarianism and religiosity is contingent on both individual-level and societal moderators.

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威权主义与宗教信仰之间关系的个体和情境调节器

社会科学家非常关注解释宗教信仰的个体和背景差异。除其他外，权威主义被可靠地发现与更大的宗教信仰有关。尽管教育和人类发展通常被认为会减少宗教信仰，我们在这项研究中表明，在教育程度越高、生活在人类发展水平更高的社会中，威权主义与各种宗教信仰指数之间的关系就越强。使用来自世界价值观调查的两个大型跨文化数据集，我们发现有证据表明威权主义与受教育程度较高的个人和生活在人类发展水平较高的社会中的个人的宗教参与和实践更密切相关。因此，我们证明了威权主义和宗教信仰之间的联系取决于个人层面和社会调节者。