Rethinking the Reasonableness of the Religious Right
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1995
Publication Title
Review of Religious Research
Volume
36
Issue
3
First page number:
263
Last page number:
276
Abstract
Using a sample of members of Moral Majority, we compare two general explanations of activism within the organization: "pathological" theories, which posit a connection between personal deficiencies and conservative political activism, and "representational" theories, in which supporters of right-wing organizations are thought to be motivated primarily by unrepresented policy preferences. We find much stronger support for the representational view and offer several possible explanations for this finding.
Keywords
Conservativism; Religion; Religion and politics
Disciplines
American Politics | Political Science | Religion
Language
English
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Repository Citation
Wilcox, C.,
Jelen, T. G.,
Linzey, S.
(1995).
Rethinking the Reasonableness of the Religious Right.
Review of Religious Research, 36(3),
263-276.