Ministers Speak on Watergate: Effects of Clergy Role during Political Crisis
Through the use of clergy role measures, the stimulus for addressing the Watergate event is explored. Both the community problem solving and traditional roles were positively related to delivering Watergate sermons, controlling for the effects of other predictors including theological viewpoint. The...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1981
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Review of religious research
Year: 1981, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 150-166 |
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| Summary: | Through the use of clergy role measures, the stimulus for addressing the Watergate event is explored. Both the community problem solving and traditional roles were positively related to delivering Watergate sermons, controlling for the effects of other predictors including theological viewpoint. Theologically conservative clergy were less likely to give such sermons than were liberal ministers. The giving of Watergate-inspired sermons was related to addressing other social problem topics on the part of liberal but not conservative clergy. In addition, using panel data clergy rates of addressing social and political topics during 1972 and 1974 were compared: the rate of addressing such topics declined for liberal clergy but increased for those who were conservative. Watergate is viewed as a watershed event, ushering in the greater likelihood of conservative clergy speaking out on social and political concerns. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511925 |