Politicized Clergy: A Sociological Interpretation of the "New Breed"
The American Churches witnessed the radicalizing of a significant and vocal segment of their clergy during the last decade. This essay seeks to understand this phenomenon by offering a typology of American religious movements. Our analysis reveals that the "new breed" represents the advent...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[1973]
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| In: |
Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 1973, Volume: 12, Issue: 4, Pages: 383-399 |
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| Summary: | The American Churches witnessed the radicalizing of a significant and vocal segment of their clergy during the last decade. This essay seeks to understand this phenomenon by offering a typology of American religious movements. Our analysis reveals that the "new breed" represents the advent of a new social reform movement which shares some salient traits with reformers who were generated by the American Churches in previous eras of activism. This similarity renders possible both a more precise adjudication of the basic thrust of the "new breed" and a more exacting assessment of its probable impact on subsequent religious life in this society. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1385044 |
