Abstract
Social scientists have long been interested in the relationship between religion and various measures offatalism. Theodicies, or religious explanations for negative (andpositive) outcomes in life, suggest that religion and religiosity should be related to measures offatalism. Race and ethnicity have also been linked to fatalistic attitudes. In this paper I examine the relationship between religious denomination, religiosity, race/ethnicity and a measure offatalism. The data are from Wave I of the national survey Americans Changing Lives, a national probability sample of3617 people that includes an oversample ofAfrican Americans. The results indicate that both denominational types and race and ethnicity continue to be related in important ways to the measure offatalism. The differences remain strong even when age, gender, income, education, and socio-economic status of occupations are controlled statistically.
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