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- Title
RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK, CULTURE WAR POLITICS, AND ANTIPATHY TOWARD CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS.
- Authors
Bolce, Louis; De Maio, Gerald
- Abstract
The article discusses sentiment towards Christian fundamentalists, who symbolizes religiously conservative Christians in public discourse today. Christian fundamentalism began in the late nineteenth century as a movement within American evangelical Protestantism in reaction to modernist tendencies in Christianity. The term "fundamentalist" was initially coined to the rally supporters of the movement to preserve the fundamental truths of Christianity. The religious composition has drastically changed and the pattern of religious pluralism has also changed. There has also been a greater integration of Catholics and Jews into the American mainstream and a growing cultural similarity among persons from most religious backgrounds. There is significant fraction of the population who has a antipathy towards religious fundamentalists. The 1988-96 American National Election Study data is used to examine the antipathy towards Christian fundamentalists. The role of the current political environment for this antipathy is explored.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RELIGIOUS fundamentalism; PROTESTANT fundamentalists; AVERSION; EVANGELICAL counsels; OBEDIENCE in Christianity
- Publication
Public Opinion Quarterly, 1999, Vol 63, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
0033-362X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/297702