Conservative Protestant Politics

by Steve Bruce

2020-11-24 19:18:11

This timely new study examines the place and nature of religion in industrial societies through a comparative analysis of conservative Protestant politics in a variety of ''first world'' societies. Rejecting the popular, but misleading, grouping of ... Read more
This timely new study examines the place and nature of religion in industrial societies through a comparative analysis of conservative Protestant politics in a variety of ''first world'' societies. Rejecting the popular, but misleading, grouping of diverse movements under the heading of''fundamentalism'', Bruce presents a series of detailed case studies of the Christian Right in the United States, Protestant unionism in Northen Ireland, anti-Catholicism in Scotland, Afrikaner politics in South Africa, and Empire Loyalism in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. He proceeds to examinethe constraints that culturally diverse societies place on those who wish to promote political agendas based on religious ideas or on religiously informed ethnic identities. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.43 X 0.75 in
Print pages246
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date September 1, 1998
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780198293927
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Steve Bruce is an internationally renowned sociologist of religion. He taught at The Queen's University, Belfast, from 1978 to 1991 and since 2001 he has been Professor of Sociology at the University ...

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