Choosing Sides: An Exploration of Role Conflict among Evangelical Democrats
Evangelical Protestants have increasingly aligned with the Republican Party in their voting patterns and opinions since the late 1970s. As a result, this alignment of Evangelical Protestantism with the GOP could present a dilemma for Evangelical Democrats, whose religious and political identities ar...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2011
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 72, Issue: 1, Pages: 28-49 |
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| Summary: | Evangelical Protestants have increasingly aligned with the Republican Party in their voting patterns and opinions since the late 1970s. As a result, this alignment of Evangelical Protestantism with the GOP could present a dilemma for Evangelical Democrats, whose religious and political identities are perceived by many to be in conflict with one another. Using data from the 2005 wave of the Baylor Religion Survey, the present study tests whether Evangelical Democrats seek to avoid role conflict by choosing between the religious and political components of their lives. Results find that Evangelical Democrats avoid role conflict by compromising both the political and religious components of their identity, maintaining religious and political beliefs that are largely more liberal than other Evangelicals but more conservative than other Democrats. Evangelical Democrats are also found to attend church significantly less than other Evangelicals and Democrats of other religious traditions. Implications for role conflict among Evangelical Democrats are discussed. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq066 |