ISBN:
9781316104873
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 194 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics
DDC:
306.2/60973
Keywords:
Republican Party
;
Democratic Party
;
Geschichte 1950-2014
;
Religion
Abstract:
Do Evangelical activists control the Republican Party? Do secular activists control the Democratic Party? In Godless Democrats and Pious Republicans, Ryan Claassen carefully assesses the way campaign activists represent religious and non-religious groups in American political parties dating back to the 1960s. By providing a new theoretical framework for investigating the connections between macro social and political trends, the results challenge a conventional wisdom in which recently mobilized religious and Secular extremists captured the parties and created a God gap. The new approach reveals that very basic social and demographic trends matter far more than previously recognized and that mobilization matters far less. The God gap in voting is real, but it was not created by Christian Right mobilization efforts and a Secular backlash. Where others see culture wars and captured parties, Claassen finds many religious divisions in American politics are artifacts of basic social changes. This very basic insight leads to many profoundly different conclusions about the motivations of religious and non-religious activists and voters.
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316104873
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