Religious Socialisation and Values as Predictors of Human Rights Attitudes. An Empirical Study among Christian and Muslim Adolescents in Germany

Abstract

To diffferentiate Christians and Muslims, religion is composed of items about religious afffiliation. Human Rights are the independent variables. This chapter focuses on Freedom of Expression, Political Rights and Judicial Rights. As dependent variables five value dimensions have been used: social responsibility, hedonism, autonomy, family and patriotism. This chapter presents the data analysis specifying the necessary insights to answer our research questions. The focus on the content of the scales and how respondents value the content. It also indicate any significant differences between the valuations of both groups. The results for the means, standard deviations and T-Test respective to each scale. The main diffference between Christians and Muslims can be seen in the means of religious socialisation. Here, further research is needed to deal in detail with the dependencies between religious convictions and values, and between both these areas and Human Rights. Keywords:autonomy; Christians; freedom; Human Rights; Muslims; religious socialisation; research questions; social responsibility; values