Political Christianity: A Contextual Analysis

Authors

Ted G. Jelen, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-1992

Publication Title

American Journal of Political Science

Volume

36

Issue

3

First page number:

692

Last page number:

714

Abstract

In this paper, an attempt is made to assess the relative importance of individual attributes and congregational-level contextual variables in explaining support for New Christian Right figures and for the Republican party. Using data gathered from 14 rural midwestern churches, the analysis suggests the following: (1) contextual effects are important and often are stronger than the effects of individual-level variables; (2) the unique effects of contextual-level variables are occasionally negative, suggesting that simple social learning models of contextual effects may be inadequate; and (3) contextual effects are likely to be weaker at simpler levels of conceptualization.

Keywords

Christianity; Christianity and politics; Partisanship; Religion; Republicanism

Disciplines

American Politics | Christianity | Community-Based Research | Political Science | Religion

Language

English

Repository Citation

Jelen, T. G. (1992). Political Christianity: A Contextual Analysis. American Journal of Political Science, 36(3), 692-714.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2111587