BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 RDATE:20130310T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 RDATE:20131103T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131108T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131108T170000 LOCATION:JRHH 203 SUMMARY:The Effects of Religious Commitment on Media Perception and the A cquisition of Political Information by Benjamin Gaskins DESCRIPTION:Scholars have shown that religious involvement can prepare in dividuals for civic activity by endowing them with the skills and motivat ion to engage in politics. Others\, however\, assert that religious dogma tism may lead to disengagement with the secular world and politics more g enerally. These two perspectives have resulted in contradictory findings on a key aspect of civic ability: political knowledge. I argue that while religiosity may indeed increase individuals' engagement in a wide array of political activities\, religious commitment decreases the ability to a cquire accurate information about certain types of political facts. This argument is tested with a number of national surveys\, and I find that wh ile religion has a non-negative effect on knowledge of general political structures and figures\, it increases the perception of media hostility\, which leads to lower levels of political knowledge about policy-specific and surveillance information. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Scholars have shown that religious invo lvement can prepare individuals for civic activity by endowing them with the skills and motivation to engage in politics. Others\, however\, asser t that religious dogmatism may lead to disengagement with the secular wor ld and politics more generally. These two perspectives have resulted in c ontradictory findings on a key aspect of civic ability: political knowled ge. I argue that while religiosity may indeed increase individuals' engag ement in a wide array of political activities\, religious commitment decr eases the ability to acquire accurate information about certain types of political facts. This argument is tested with a number of national survey s\, and I find that while religion has a non-negative effect on knowledge of general political structures and figures\, it increases the perceptio n of media hostility\, which leads to lower levels of political knowledge about policy-specific and surveillance information.
UID:20131108T233000Z-21464@college.lclark.edu DTSTAMP:20131028T121757Z URL:https://college.lclark.edu/live/events/21464-the-effects-of-religious -commitment-on-media LAST-MODIFIED:20131106T171649Z ATTACH:https://college.lclark.edu/live/image/gid/80/width/80/height/80/cr op/1/src_region/126,0,881,754/41978_gaskins_pic.rev.1382987865.jpg X-LIVEWHALE-TYPE:events X-LIVEWHALE-ID:21464 X-LIVEWHALE-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles X-LIVEWHALE-IMAGE:https://college.lclark.edu/live/image/gid/80/width/80/h eight/80/crop/1/src_region/126\,0\,881\,754/41978_gaskins_pic.rev.1382987 865.jpg X-LIVEWHALE-SUMMARY:Join the Political Science department for a research presentation by Benjamin Gaskins.