摘要
通过对美国和欧洲共10个国家(英国、法国、德国、意大利、西班牙、丹麦、荷兰、奥地利、波兰)的16,000名成年人进行的跨国调查(2002及2003年),本文考察了当地的宗教信仰状况,着重于他们对神权、生命的实质及生命的开始等三方面的理解认识,并进一步研究了他们的一些宗教行为(如祈祷及参与宗教活动的频率)和对宗教领袖的信任程度。本文的重点在于分析个人宗教价值观对其就新兴生化科技所持政治态度的影响。为此收集了广泛的研究数据,考察受访者对主要生化科技,如胚胎干细胞应用、转基因食品和克隆等的观点和态度。最后,使用多元回归研究模式的结构方程模型(SEM)分别描述了人们的宗教价值观、对生命的理解、年龄、性别和教育水平等几个变量对于堕胎、胚胎干细胞应用研究和安乐死等三项公共政策争论的影响。
Using a cross-national study of 16,000 adults in 10 countries (United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, and the United States) collected in 2002 and 2003, this paper examines the religious beliefs of adults concerning divine power, the nature of human life, and the beginning of lifo. The analysis describes religious practice (frequency of prayer and attendance) and trust in religious leaders. Working within the context of the distribution of religious values, a second analysis estimates the influence of personal religious values on political attitudes toward new and emerging biotechnologies. The 10-country study collected extensive measures of the level of respondent understanding of major biotechnology issues (stem cells, GM foods, cloning) and attitudes toward these issues. A set of structural equation models are used to estimate the relative influence of religious values, biological understanding, age, gender, and formal education on specific attitudes toward (1) abortion, (2) stem cell research, and (3) euthanasia.
出处
《开放时代》
CSSCI
2006年第4期23-37,共15页
Open Times