Transferring trust through religion? : an analysis of trust in South Korea
(2007)Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
- Abstract
- BACKGROUND: The main purpose of this thesis was to study the relationship between religious affiliation and individuals' general trust with particular reference to South Korea. More precisely the intention was to examine if a religion that has been transplanted from one cultural context changes the moral values of its adherents in the different cultural context into which it has been introduced. The empirical part of the study was based on data from 3 waves of the World Value Survey carried out in 1982, 1990 and 2001, totally including 1509 Buddhists and Christians.
RESULTS: For all the three waves - 1982, 1990 and 2001 - the null hypothesis, stating that Protestants have the same level of generalized trust as Buddhists, could not be... (More) - BACKGROUND: The main purpose of this thesis was to study the relationship between religious affiliation and individuals' general trust with particular reference to South Korea. More precisely the intention was to examine if a religion that has been transplanted from one cultural context changes the moral values of its adherents in the different cultural context into which it has been introduced. The empirical part of the study was based on data from 3 waves of the World Value Survey carried out in 1982, 1990 and 2001, totally including 1509 Buddhists and Christians.
RESULTS: For all the three waves - 1982, 1990 and 2001 - the null hypothesis, stating that Protestants have the same level of generalized trust as Buddhists, could not be rejected. Only 1982 showed a significant difference between Protestants and Buddhists (p=0.008). However, when education was brought into a logistic regression model, the difference between Buddhists and Protestants in 1982 ceased to exist (p=0.185).
CONCLUSION: This thesis has concluded that there is not a difference in the level of trust when comparing Buddhists and Protestants. This makes sense, since the main branch of the Protestant Church shares many similar ideological traits with Confucian ideas. Despite being regarded a foreign element in the Korean context, the result of this study seems to suggest that as Korean Protestantism has becoming increasingly integral part of Korean society and culture, Korean Protestants demonstrate similar attitudes to trust as do Korean Buddhists. (Less)
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- Pingel, Ronnie
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2007
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- South Korea, trust, religion, Buddhism, Christianity, Protestantism, förtroende, Sydkorea, kristendom, Religious Studies and Theology, Religion och teologi
- language
- English
- id
- 1322613
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- 2007-09-06 00:00:00
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- 2007-09-06 00:00:00
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abstract = {{BACKGROUND: The main purpose of this thesis was to study the relationship between religious affiliation and individuals' general trust with particular reference to South Korea. More precisely the intention was to examine if a religion that has been transplanted from one cultural context changes the moral values of its adherents in the different cultural context into which it has been introduced. The empirical part of the study was based on data from 3 waves of the World Value Survey carried out in 1982, 1990 and 2001, totally including 1509 Buddhists and Christians.
RESULTS: For all the three waves - 1982, 1990 and 2001 - the null hypothesis, stating that Protestants have the same level of generalized trust as Buddhists, could not be rejected. Only 1982 showed a significant difference between Protestants and Buddhists (p=0.008). However, when education was brought into a logistic regression model, the difference between Buddhists and Protestants in 1982 ceased to exist (p=0.185).
CONCLUSION: This thesis has concluded that there is not a difference in the level of trust when comparing Buddhists and Protestants. This makes sense, since the main branch of the Protestant Church shares many similar ideological traits with Confucian ideas. Despite being regarded a foreign element in the Korean context, the result of this study seems to suggest that as Korean Protestantism has becoming increasingly integral part of Korean society and culture, Korean Protestants demonstrate similar attitudes to trust as do Korean Buddhists.}},
author = {{Pingel, Ronnie}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Transferring trust through religion? : an analysis of trust in South Korea}},
year = {{2007}},
}