SOMETHING WITHIN - RELIGION AS A MOBILIZER OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL ACTIVISM
SOMETHING WITHIN - RELIGION AS A MOBILIZER OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL ACTIVISM
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DOI：
10.2307/2132345
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发表时间：
1994-02-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
HARRIS, FC
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作者：
HARRIS, FC
很少有研究探讨宗教的多维方面及其对政治行动的影响。对于非裔美国人来说尤其如此，至少在社会科学文献中，他们被定型为具有超凡脱俗的宗教取向，将注意力从世俗的关注（如政治）转移到超凡脱俗的回报上。本研究扩展了Kenneth Wald的工作，通过将宗教视为政治动员的资源，提出了宗教与政治行动的理论。本文利用1987年的综合社会调查（GSS），论证了非裔美国人的宗教既是个人和集体政治行动的组织和心理资源。它还展示了个人的宗教信仰和实践如何影响投票和集体行动等不同的政治行动模式，以及这些影响在美国黑人和白人之间的差异。
Few studies have explored the multidimensional aspect of religion and its impact on political action. This is especially true of African Americans who have been stereotyped, at least in the social science literature, as having an otherworldly religious orientation that deflects attention away from worldly concerns, such as politics, to otherworldly rewards. Expanding the work of Kenneth Wald, this study posits a theory of religion and political action by considering religion as a resource for political mobilization. Using the 1987 General Social Survey (GSS), this article argues that religion among African Americans serves as both an organizational and psychological resource for individual and collective political action. It also demonstrates how individual religious beliefs and practices affect different modes of political action like voting and collective action, and how these effects differ between black and white Americans.