Religious Institutions and Political Participation in America
Religious Institutions and Political Participation in America
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美国的宗教机构和政治参与
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2001
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J. T. Grant
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Paul A. Djupe;J. T. Grant
先前对宗教机构和政治参与的研究发现，教会可以通过公民技能的发展和宗教传统的独特政治历史来增加其成员的参与。本文探讨了宗教机构促进其成员政治参与的各种方式。我们利用 1990 年公民参与研究来检验关于宗教机构与政治参与之间联系的七个假设。我们发现，与之前的研究相反，教会获得的公民技能和宗教传统并不直接影响目前活跃于宗教机构的人们的政治参与。相反，教会通过招募成员参与政治以及当成员开始认为他们的教会活动具有政治后果时，可以更有效地让教区居民参与政治进程。
Previous research on religious institutions and political participation finds that churches can increase participation among their members through the development of civic skills and the distinct political histories of religious traditions. This paper examines the various ways religious institutions promote the political participation of their members. We utilize the 1990 Citizen Participation Study to test seven hypotheses about the connections between religious institutions and political participation. We find, contrary to previous work, that church-gained civic skills and religious tradition do not directly affect political participation among those currently active in religious institutions. Rather, churches bring their parishioners more effectively into the political process through the recruitment of members to politics and when members come to see their church activity as having political consequences.