Public Images of Protestant Ministers and Catholic Priests: An Empirical Study of Anti-Clericalism in the U.S
Using data from a national sample of U.S. adults, we focused on differences and sources of those differences among the public images of three categories of clergymen: Catholic, Methodist, and Lutheran. The specific focus was on the issue of anti-clericalism, in particular anti-Catholic clericalism....
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| Language: | English |
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1972
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1972, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 34-49 |
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| Summary: | Using data from a national sample of U.S. adults, we focused on differences and sources of those differences among the public images of three categories of clergymen: Catholic, Methodist, and Lutheran. The specific focus was on the issue of anti-clericalism, in particular anti-Catholic clericalism. In this connection, we raised three major questions: 1) To what extent does anti-clericalism in general exist in the United States? We found little. 2) How much residual anti-Catholic Clericalism exists? We found some. That is, our sample applied a set of negative characteristics more often to Catholic priests than to Protestant ministers. 3) What factors might be producing or encouraging the anti-Catholic clericalism that does appear to exist? Here denominational affiliation and educational level of the respondents are relevant. Of particular interest is the discovery that the little anti-Catholic clericalism that does exist seems to reside more in Catholic than Protestant respondents. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3710296 |