Dimensions of Religious Free Exercise: Abstract Beliefs and Concrete Applications

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-1999

Publication Title

Review of Religious Research

Volume

40

Issue

4

First page number:

349

Last page number:

358

Abstract

Based on a 1993 telephone survey of the greater Washington, D.C., area, the correlates of support for religious free exercise are investigated. Specifically, I consider sources of belief that religious principles should allow people to violate otherwise valid laws. I find that evangelicals and fundamentalists are generally supportive of the abstract principle of religious free exercise. However, many of these same characteristics are negatively related to support for concrete applications of the value of religious liberty.

Keywords

Evangelicalism; Freedom of religion; Fundamentalism; Law; Religion

Disciplines

American Politics | Political Science | Religion

Language

English

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