The Fact and Form of Born-Again Religious Conversions and Sociopolitical Conservatism
This report concerns an effort to distinguish sudden and gradual Christian Protestant born agains from each other and to determine if the distinction is salient when examining influences on a composed index of sociopolitical conservatism. Analysis is conducted using data from 287 white Protestant ad...
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| Language: | English |
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1992
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Review of religious research
Year: 1992, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 117-131 |
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| Summary: | This report concerns an effort to distinguish sudden and gradual Christian Protestant born agains from each other and to determine if the distinction is salient when examining influences on a composed index of sociopolitical conservatism. Analysis is conducted using data from 287 white Protestant adult residents of a Southeastern U.S. county interviewed by telephone: Findings revealed are that: 1) the Gallup form of the born-again item elicits affirmative responses from both types of born agains; 2) whether or not a white Protestant is born again has a significant influence on sociopolitical conservatism at the bivariate level, but how one is born again--suddenly or gradually--does not; 3) when submitted to multivariate analysis, born-again status loses its salience as a significant independent influence on sociopolitical conservatism; and 4) other religious variables tapping fervor and fundamentalism correlate significantly at the multivariate level with sociopolitical conservatism, but certain sociopolitical variables are more salient. Implications are suggested. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511129 |