Clergy in Racial Controversy: A Replication of the Campbell and Pettigrew Study
This article focuses on the role reference system model developed by Campbell and Pettigrew to explain patterns of clergy social activism. Both a theoretical extension of the model and data bearing on its validity are presented. Some of Campbell and Pettigrew's more narrowly focused hypotheses...
| Published in: | Review of religious research |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1985
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Review of religious research
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| Summary: | This article focuses on the role reference system model developed by Campbell and Pettigrew to explain patterns of clergy social activism. Both a theoretical extension of the model and data bearing on its validity are presented. Some of Campbell and Pettigrew's more narrowly focused hypotheses from their 1959 study of Little Rock clergy are also successfully replicated. A stratified random sample of seventy-five black and white, Protestant and Catholic male ministers in mainline churches in Boston and in the first ring of suburbs surrounding Boston were interviewed between July and December of 1975 during the midst of the major Boston school desegregation controversy. Data from fifty-five cases with complete information on the dependent variable measures were used in this analysis. Important factors leading to higher levels of social activism among Boston clergy included being under 40 years of age, having "professional reference system" support (e.g., support of friends in the clergy and of members of the church hierarchy) when facing congregational resistance to social activism, not being affiliated with the numerically dominant denomination in Boston, and being a Boston rather than a suburban minister. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511051 |