Ascetic Protestantism and Political Preference: A Re-Examination
This paper replicates Johnson's study of effects of the religious factor on political identification. Johnson found an inverse relation between attendance at a liberal ascetic Protestant church and Republican identification and a positive relation between attendance at a fundamentalist ascetic...
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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: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 17-25 |
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| Summary: | This paper replicates Johnson's study of effects of the religious factor on political identification. Johnson found an inverse relation between attendance at a liberal ascetic Protestant church and Republican identification and a positive relation between attendance at a fundamentalist ascetic Protestant church and Republican identification. A previous replication by Anderson confirmed Johnson's findings only for fundamentalists. Survey data gathered in a rural Midwest area were consistent with Anderson's findings rather than Johnson's, based on the direction of the relationship. However, neither Johnson nor Anderson determined the statistical significance of their findings. When this is done, the present study replicates both Johnson's and Anderson's in showing that church involvement and political identification are not significantly related. The point is made that greater care should be exercised in applying appropriate inferential statistical techniques to data which on the surface appear to support a theoretically well-grounded hypothesis. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3510930 |