{"id":9937,"date":"2015-10-28T17:20:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=9937"},"modified":"2015-10-28T17:30:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:30:42","slug":"liberal-churches-most-discriminatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/liberal-churches-most-discriminatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Churches Most Discriminatory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/628x471.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9941\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/628x471.jpg\" alt=\"628x471\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/628x471.jpg 400w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/628x471-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to new research on display in the <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jssr.12193\/abstract\">Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This article reports the results of a nationwide audit study testing how Christian churches welcome potential newcomers to their churches as a function of newcomers\u2019 race and ethnicity. We sent email inquiries to 3,120 churches across the United States. The emails were ostensibly from someone moving to the area and looking for a new church to attend. That person&#8217;s name was randomly varied to convey different racial and ethnic associations. In response to these inquiries, representatives from mainline <strong>Protestant churches\u2014who generally embrace liberal, egalitarian attitudes toward race relations\u2014actually demonstrated the most discriminatory behavior<\/strong>. They responded most frequently to emails with white-sounding names, somewhat less frequently to black- or Hispanic-sounding names, and much less to Asian-sounding names. They also sent shorter, less welcoming responses to nonwhite names. In contrast, evangelical Protestant and Catholic churches showed little variation across treatment groups in their responses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s according to new research on display in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion: This article reports the results of a nationwide audit study testing how Christian churches welcome potential newcomers to their churches as a function of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/liberal-churches-most-discriminatory\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,1042,711],"tags":[1146,1147,1144,1145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9943,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937\/revisions\/9943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}