A01=Steve Bruce
American Political Arena
Author_Steve Bruce
Baptist Bible Fellowship
Category=QD
Christian Coalition
church-state relations
conservative activism research
Conservative Protestant
Conservative Social Issues
culture wars analysis
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evangelical voting behavior
family values debate
GOP Coalition
GOP Convention
High Interitem Correlations
Latent Class
Latent Class Analysis
Latent Class Probabilities
Mainline Protestants
Moral Majority
Politik Als Beruf
Regular Church Attenders
religion and politics
religious influence on US elections
Robertson Supporters
Santa Barbara News Press
Secular Voters
Significant Independent Relationship
Social Issues
Socio-moral Issues
Sociomoral Issues
Telephone Exchange
Traditional Family Values
Violating
Product details
- ISBN 9781138538115
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Theologically conservative Protestants have entered the political arena with an agenda that is at once political and religious. Assessing the current impact of this New Christian Right (NCR) on American politics, the contributors to this new book present provocative and diverse perspectives on a phenomenon that has, despite its pervasiveness in American culture, been too little examined. While some contributors show a disdain for the NCR, others evince genuine sympathy for the movement.Steve Bruce takes aim at sociologists of religion who, in his estimation, have exaggerated the strength of the NCR. Clyde Wilcox believes the NCR attracts only a limited electoral following, and will have little success at the state and national levels. Stephen Johnson reports on voting patterns of Catholics, mainline Protestants, and conservative Protestants in Muncie, Indiana. And Phillip Hammond and his associates observe that the main fault line between conservatives and liberals is now over “family values.” John Simpson singles out debates over abortion and homosexuality as the most potent cultural divisions arising out of the 1980s. Lyman A. Kellstedt and colleagues mark the 1992 presidential election as a watershed event, beginning a dramatic new cleavage in the two-party system. James M. Penning and Matthew C. Moen address issues related to NCR organizations and their place in the political arena.It is clear that the NCR will remain a part of the religious and political landscape lor some time, though there is little consensus over where the NCR will be located in that landscape. The Rapture of Politics will be of interest to political scientists, theologians, sociologists, and scholars of American culture.
Bruce, Steve
