Religious Identification and its Ethnic Correlates

Abstract

This article is rather complex but very instructive. The author specifies eight variables, or dimensions as he calls them, and seeks among other things to find interrelationships between them using causal analysis. The variables refer to those attributes which seem important in providing and maintaining religious identification in Jews and Protestants. The variables are described both conceptually and operationally; the latter consists of those measurements likely to tap the content of the former.