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Research
Religion and Human Rights Survey
The St Mary’s Centre is collaborating with Professor Hans-Georg Ziebertz from Germany in an international study designed to explore the relationship between attitudes toward religion and toward human rights among year 11 and post-16-year-old students.The Welsh arm of this study was launched during the autumn term 2014 and has generated a series of publications since. The findings presented in these publications cover a wide range of significant topics such as:
- The relationship between an individual's religiosity and their opinions on human rights issues;
- The often overlooked effect of cultural context on the relationship between religion and human rights beliefs;
- The effect of an individual's personality on their belief's about human rights;
- The association between religious saliency and openness toward political rights;
- The acceptance of freedom of religious clothing and symbols in schools;
- The effect of an individual's religious beliefs and their opinions regarding euthanasia.
There have been many significant findings from this project, such as:
- Cultural context has a recognisable effect on an individual's opinions regarding human rights;
- Children attending church schools and children attending non-religious affiliated schools display no significant difference in their attitude toward freedom of religious clothing and symbols in school;
- The impact of religious affiliation on an individual's human rights beliefs is a factor that does not act independently. Gender, cultural context, and personality also play a simultaneous role in affecting someone's human rights beliefs alongside their religious affiliation.
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