The Church, Individual Religiosity, and Social Justice
The role of the church in contemporary issues of social justice is examined by analyzing attitudinal data from a sample of college students. While considerable support was accorded the diffuse national goal of a fully integrated society, the respondents were far from certain that the clergy and the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1967
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1967, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 34-43 |
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| Summary: | The role of the church in contemporary issues of social justice is examined by analyzing attitudinal data from a sample of college students. While considerable support was accorded the diffuse national goal of a fully integrated society, the respondents were far from certain that the clergy and the church should be actively involved in obtaining this goal. More church members than non-members agreed with the general orientation of a fully integrated society, although more Protestants and non-members than Catholics supported the active involvement of the clergy. An analysis of the data by the degree of individual religiosity, as measured by an eight-item Guttman scale, showed that, in general a larger proportion of high as compared with low religiosity respondents supported an integrated society as a national goal, but a lower proportion of high religiosity respondents supported direct involvement by the church or the clergy. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3710420 |