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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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2009
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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. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srp006 |