The relationship of political evangelicalism to critical thinking and selected sociopolitical values in 2007
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Williams, Robert L.
Quillivan, Colin C.
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2008
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10
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The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between political evangelicalism and both critical thinking and selected sociopolitical perspectives in a sample of Southeastern university students in late 2007. The findings showed that political evangelicalism was negatively correlated with critical thinking, critical patriotism, and respect for civil liberties but positively correlated with uncritical patriotism, emphasis on national security, militarism, threat of Saddam Hussein, and support for the Iraq War. Compared with media reports highlighting evangelicals’ sociopolitical perspectives near the beginning of the Iraq War, the current findings show that these perspectives have remained strong despite the subsequent course of the war.
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Williams, Robert L. and Quillivan, Colin C. (2008), The relationship of political evangelicalism to critical thinking and selected sociopolitical values in 2007. Journal of Religion & Society, 10.
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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University
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1522-5658