Study links religion to racial prejudice
Religion • April 2010 • Views: 352
More than 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. lamented that 11 o’clock Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America, a Baylor University study suggests that religion itself may be a contributing factor in racial prejudice.
The study, published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, found that people subliminally “primed” with Christian words reported more negative attitudes about African-Americans than those primed with neutral words.