Protestant Clergy and the Culture Wats: An Empirical Test of Hunter's Thesis.
Protestant Clergy and the Culture Wats: An Empirical Test of Hunter's Thesis.
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新教神职人员和文化Wats：对亨特论文的实证检验。
DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-5906.2011.01601.x
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Lucke,Glenn
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作者：
Uecker,JeremyE;Lucke,Glenn
对文化战争的考察通常是评估美国公众的态度。本研究的重点是宗教精英-神职人员之间的文化战争，并测试文化战争的三个方面：（1）宗教精英是否参与文化战争，（2）神职人员在这些问题上的态度是否两极分化，（3）宗教权威或宗教信仰是否在创造文化战争分裂中更为突出。使用从新教神职人员的大随机样本的数据，我们发现了大量的参与文化战争的所有类型的新教神职人员。两极分化的程度更多地归因于宗教权威的观点（即，圣经无误），而不是宗教传统。此外，神职人员之间的两极分化在文化战争问题上比在其他社会和政治问题上更为明显。这些发现基本上支持了文化战争的论点，并应有助于将文化战争的研究回归到最初理论上认为应该进行的地方：精英之间。
Examinations of culture wars typically assess the attitudes of the American public. This study instead focuses on culture wars among religious elites—clergy—and tests three aspects of the culture wars thesis: (1) whether religious elites are engaged in culture wars, (2) whether clergy attitudes are polarized on these issues, and (3) whether religious authority or religious affiliation is more salient in creating culture wars cleavages. Using data from a large random sample of Protestant clergy, we find a substantial amount of engagement in culture wars by all types of Protestant clergy. The amount of polarization is more attributable to views of religious authority (i.e., biblical inerrancy) than to religious tradition. Moreover, polarization among clergy is somewhat more evident on culture wars issues than on other social and political issues. These findings are generally supportive of the culture wars thesis and should help return examinations of culture wars back to where they were originally theorized to be waged: among elites.