Beschreibung:
In a recent article appearing in the Journal of Religion and Society, a novel quantitative measure of hate applicable to ecological units of analysis, the Hate Group Representation Rate (HGRR), was operationally defined and its relationships to various indicators of religiosity were examined (Delamontagne 2010a). Whereas that study was explicitly descriptive and exploratory, the purpose of the current research is substantially explanatory, and it also demonstrably improves upon the original indicators of both hate and religiosity.