Evangelical Elites' Anti-Homosexuality Narratives as a Resistance Strategy Against Attribution Effects

While attribution theory expects that beliefs about the origins of homosexuality are directly related to beliefs about the moral acceptability of homosexual behavior, we use content analysis of the popular evangelical magazine Christianity Today to show that evangelical elites have developed a serie...

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Published in:Journal for the scientific study of religion
Authors: Thomas, Jeremy N. (Author) ; Whitehead, Andrew L. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Christianity today / Evangelical movement / Elite / Homosexuality / Rejection of / Attribution / History 1960-2013
RelBib Classification:KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KDG Free church
NCF Sexual ethics
Further subjects:B Attribution Theory
B Moral narratives
B Homosexuality
B elite influence
B Evangelicalism
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