Fundamentalists, Evangelicals, and Politics
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in American Politics Quarterly
- Vol. 16 (1) , 43-59
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673x8801600103
Abstract
This article takes issue with the assumption that the Christian right is a monolithic bloc. In a national sample of clergy, self-identified fundamentalists, evangelicals, and nonidentifiers (neither fundamentalists nor nonfundamentalists) are compared on three dimensions: religious attitudes, political attitudes (issue opinions and ideology), and political communications from the pulpit. The self-identification scheme yields groups that are very distinct on all three dimensions.Keywords
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