POVEZANOST RELIGIOZNIH ORIJENTACIJA I POLITIČKE TOLERANCIJE: PROVJERA MODELA INDIVIDUALNIH RAZLIKA
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION AND POLITICAL TOLERANCE: TESTING THE INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE MODEL

Summary/Abstract: In the context of political tolerance of religious people, the individual difference model implies that political (in)tolerance towards relevant out-groups is related only to specific religious orientation. The aim of the study is to test heuristic validity of the conceptual model in the context of rather complex interethnic relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Study participants consisted of students from the University of Banjaluka, University of Mostar and University of Sarajevo (400 females and 209 males) with age average M=19.55 (SD=1.86). Scales of Intrinsic and Extrinsic-Personal Religiosity, Extrinsic-Social Religiosity (Tiliopoulos et al., 2007), Religious Orthodoxy, Religious Fundamentalism (Wiiliamson et al., 2005) and Political Tolerance (Sullivan, Piereson i Marcus, 1982) were used in the study. In the case of Eastern Orthodox and Catholic participants, results of correlation analysis show that all religious orientation, with the exception of Extrinsic-Social Religiosity, are negatively related to political tolerance towards other ethno-religious groups to statistically significant degree. As for Muslim participants, significant negative correlation with political tolerance was found only in case of Religious Fundamentalism and Extrinsic-Social Religiosity, while Religious Orthodoxy and Intrinsic and Extrinsic-Personal Religiosity are not significantly related to criterion variable. Altogether, obtained results rather question heuristic validity of individual difference model in regard to the understanding of political tolerance of religious individuals in B&H and ask for additional explanation of the social role of implicit religiosity at the time of rather pervading etnification of socio-political relations in the country.

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