Testing the contact hypothesis in interfaith encounters: personal friendships with sikhs countering anti-sikh attitudes?

McKenna, U. and Francis, L.J. (2023) Testing the contact hypothesis in interfaith encounters: personal friendships with sikhs countering anti-sikh attitudes? In: Reimagining the landscape of religious education: Challenges and opportunities. Springer Nature, Cham Switzerland, pp. 161-180. ISBN 978-3-031-20133-2

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Abstract

Drawing on data provided by 5,811 students from schools in England, Wales, and London who self-identified as either ‘no religion’ or as Christian, this study explored the effect of the contact hypothesis (having friends who are Sikhs) on scores recorded on the five-item Scale of Anti-Sikh Attitude (SASA), after controlling for type of school (with or without a religious character), location (England, Wales, and London), personal factors (sex and age), psychological factors (extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism) and religious factors (self-assigned affiliation as Christian, worship attendance, and belief in God). The data demonstrated the positive effect of having friends who are Sikhs on lowering anti-Sikh attitudes.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	religious diversity contact hypothesis Sikhs Gurdwara United Kingdom
Depositing User:	Ursula Mckenna
Date Deposited:	20 Mar 2023 10:26
Last Modified:	20 Mar 2023 10:26
URI:	https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1007

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