Religiosity and Civil Rights Militancy
The implications of religion for support of the Negro struggle for equality are somewhat contradictory. As a normative source for inspiring protest against injustice, religion may perform an important instrumental role in encouraging white commitment to the civil rights movement. On the other hand,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publications
1970
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Review of religious research
Year: 1970, Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 197-203 |
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| Summary: | The implications of religion for support of the Negro struggle for equality are somewhat contradictory. As a normative source for inspiring protest against injustice, religion may perform an important instrumental role in encouraging white commitment to the civil rights movement. On the other hand, as a value system fostering spiritual transcendence of secular life, religious involvement may impede commitment to civil rights ideology. For a large sample of college students, analysis of the effect of religiosity on attitudinal support of the civil rights struggle indicates that the greater the religious commitment, the less the militancy. However, analysis further indicates that religion need not inhibit attitudes of protest when an active as opposed to a passive position of man's responsibility for social change is held. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3510397 |