The Truth About Conservative Christians: What They Think and What They Believe

Like most of Andrew Greeley's books, this argumentative little work is an engaging amalgam of fact and fiction. Co-authored by Michael Hout, it certainly has many virtues. To begin with, one sympathizes with the authors' titular objective: much alarmist rubbish has been published about Chr...

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Main Author: Guth, James L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 2009
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 2009, Volume: 70, Issue: 1, Pages: 89-90
Review of:The truth about conservative Christians (Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] : University of Chicago Press, 2006) (Guth, James L.)
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Summary:Like most of Andrew Greeley's books, this argumentative little work is an engaging amalgam of fact and fiction. Co-authored by Michael Hout, it certainly has many virtues. To begin with, one sympathizes with the authors' titular objective: much alarmist rubbish has been published about Christian conservatives, as any visit to Barnes & Noble will attest. And their corrective makes wonderful reading: no dry academic tome, but rather a colorful commentary for scholars. There is enough information on statistical procedures to reassure most purists, but never so much as to obscure the analysis. And the cover blurbs are truthful: there is something interesting on every page.
ISSN:1759-8818
Contains:Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srp006