Shifting Concerns about Social Problems: Religious and Political Identity among Evangelical and Mainline Protestants, 1960-2013
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Danielsen, Sabrina
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2016
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13
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How does attention to controversial social problems rise and fall among Evangelical Protestants and Mainline Protestants over time? Drawing on content analysis from 1960-2013, I find that while attention to racial inequality distinguished these two religious traditions over the 1960s and early-1970s, attention to abortion has distinguished these two traditions since the 1980s. Moreover, I find that maintaining and strengthening religious identity is a key factor in how these controversial social problems are managed over time by religious groups. These findings suggest a close and complex relationship between religious identity and controversial social and political debates.
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Danielsen, S. (2016). Shifting Concerns about Social Problems: Religious and Political Identity among Evangelical and Mainline Protestants, 1960-2013. Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series, 13, 156-175.
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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University
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1941-8450