The Political Mobilization of Religious Beliefs

by Ted G. Jelen

Ted G. Jelen's study asks two basic questions: Why do some people apply their religious beliefs to their political behavior, and what are the consequences of politicized Christianity for the practice of democracy in the United States? Supportive data for his findings, collected from the members and clergy of fifteen churches in a rural Midwestern county, suggest that the decline of the Christian Right is due to religious particularism. Mutual distrust...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027593439X
• ISBN13: 9780275934392
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.7"