Race, Politics, and Religion in Civil Religion Among Blacks

The priestly type of American civil religion legitimates state authority and symbols as God ordained. Black Americans' political and religious history, and Durkheim's and Simmel's theories, suggest that Blacks would be more skeptical of ultimate governmental legitimations than Whites....

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Autores principales: Woodrum, Eric (Autor) ; Bell, Arnold (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: 1989
En: Sociological analysis
Año: 1989, Volumen: 49, Número: 4, Páginas: 353-367
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Sumario:The priestly type of American civil religion legitimates state authority and symbols as God ordained. Black Americans' political and religious history, and Durkheim's and Simmel's theories, suggest that Blacks would be more skeptical of ultimate governmental legitimations than Whites. Alternatively, prior research suggests Blacks are slightly more supportive of priestly civil religion that Whites. These issues are studied with new survey data. Race is a significant multivariate predictor of civil religion suppressed in bivariate analysis. Blacks are less civil religious than Whites, controlling for other correlates. Race interacts with other variables affecting civil religion. Different predictors of civil religion operate among Blacks and Whites. Conventional religion positively influences Whites' but negatively influences Blacks' civil religion. These findings are interpreted in view of Black American religious ethnogenesis and separatism.
ISSN:2325-7873
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3711222