Context and conscience: The Catholic Church as an agent of political socialization in Western Europe

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 28-40

  Jelen, Ted G ^a   Wilcox, Clyde ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040908561     PISSN: 00218294     EISSN: 14685906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1388027     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. Ammerman, Nancy. 1987. Bible believers: Fundamentalists confront the modern world. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
2. Bartels, Larry. 1990. Five approaches to model specification. The Political Methodologist 3: 2-6.
3. Berger, Peter L. 1969. The sacred canopy: Elements of a sociological theory of religion. Garden City, NY: Anchor.
4. _. 1979. The heretical imperative: Contemporary possibilities of religious affirmation. New York: Doubleday.
5. Berry, Phyllis, and Clyde Wilcox. September 1992. "Catholicism and abortion attitudes in Germany," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago.
6. Boyd, Laurence H. and Gudmund Iversen. 1979. Contextual analysis: Concepts and statistical techniques. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
7. Bruce, Steve. 1992. Pluralism and religious vitality. In Religion and modernization, edited by Steve Bruce, 170-94. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
8. Bruce, Steve. 1995a. The truth about religion in Britain. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 34: 417-30.
9. _. 1995b. A novel reading of nineteenth-century Wales: A reply to Stark, Finke, and Iannaccone. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 34: 520-22.
10. Burns, Gene. 1992. The frontiers of Catholicism: The politics of ideology in a liberal world. Berkeley: University of California Press.
11. Carroll, Michael P. Stark realities and Eurocentric/androcentric bias in the sociology of religion. Sociology of Religion 57: 225-39.
12. Carsey, Thomas M. 1995. The contextual effects of race on white behavior: The 1989 New York City mayoral election. Journal of Politics 57: 221-28.
13. Casanova, Joee. 1994. Public religions in the modern world. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
14. Chaves, Mark, and David E. Cann. 1992. Regulation, pluralism, and religious market structure. Rationality and Society 4: 272-90.
15. Christiano, Kevin J. 1987. Religious diversity and social change: American cities, 1980-1906. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
16. Cook, Elizabeth Adell, Ted G. Jelen, and Clyde Wilcox. 1993. Catholicism and abortion attitudes in the American states: A contextual analysis. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 32: 223-30.
17. Ellmers, J.E. 1984. 'Pillarization' as a process of modernization. Acta Politica 19: 129-44.
18. Finke, Roger, Avery Guest, and Rodney Stark. 1996. Mobilizing local religious markets: Religious pluralism in the Empire State, 1855 to 1865. American Sociological Review 61: 203-18.
19. Finke, Roger, and Laurence R. Iannaccone. 1993. Supply-side explanations for religious change. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 527: 27-39.
20. Finke, Roger, and Rodney Stark. 1988. Religious economies and sacred canopies: Religious mobilization in American cities. American Sociological Review 53: 41-49.
21. _. 1989. Evaluating the evidence: Religious economies and sacred canopies. American Sociological Review 54: 1054-56.
22. _. 1992. The churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
23. Gillespie, Michael, Elisabeth M. Tenvergert, and Johannes Kingma. 1988. Using Mokken methods to develop robust cross-national scales: American and West German attitudes toward abortion. Social Indicators Research 20: 181-203.
24. Glaser, James M. 1994. Back to the Black Belt: Racial environment and white racial attitudes in the South. Journal of Politics 56: 21-41.
25. Greeley, Andrew M. 1989. Religious change in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
26. Hadden, Jeffrey K. 1987. Toward desacralizing secularization theory. Social Forces 65: 587-611.
27. Hamburg, Eva M., and Thorleif Pettersson. 1994. The religious market: Denominational competition and religious participation in contemporary Sweden. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 33: 205-16.
28. Hunter, James Davison. 1983. American evangelicalism: Conservative religion and the quandary of modernity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
29. _. 1987. Evangelicalism: The coming generation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
30. _. 1991. Culture wars: The struggle to define America. New York: Basic Books.
31. Huckfeldt, Robert, and John Sprague. 1987. Networks in context: The social flow of political information. American Political Science Review 81: 1197-1216.
32. Huckfeldt, Robert, and John Sprague. 1991. Discussant effects on vote choice: Intimacy, structure, and interdependence. Journal of Politics 53: 122-58.
33. Iannaccone, Laurence R. 1991. The consequences of religious market structure. Rationality and Society 3: 156-77.
34. Inglehart, Margaret 1981. Political interest in Western European women: A historical and empirical comparative analysis. Comparative Political Studies 14: 299-325.
35. Iversen, Gudmund R. 1991. Contextual analysis. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
36. Jelen, Ted G. 1993. Political Christianity: A contextual analysis. American Journal of Political Science 36: 692-714.
37. Jelen, Ted G., John O'Donnell, and Clyde Wilcox. 1993. A contextual analysis of Catholicism and abortion attitudes in Western Europe. Sociology of Religion 54: 375-83.
38. Jelen, Ted G., Sue Thomas, and Clyde Wilcox. 1994. The gender gap in comparative perspective: Gender differences in abstract ideology and concrete issues in Western Europe. European Journal of Political Research 25: 171-86.
39. Jelen, Ted G., and Clyde Wilcox. 1993. Catholicism and opposition to gender equality in Western Europe. International Journal of Public Opinion Research 5: 40-57.
40. Kuhn, Thomas. 1962. The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
41. Lakatos, Imre. 1979. Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes. In Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, edited by Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave, 91-196. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
42. Lechner, Frank J. 1996a. Secularization in the Netherlands? Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 35: 252-64.
43. Lechner, Frank J. 1996b. Rejoinder to Stark and Iannaccone: "Heads, I Win . . .": On immunizing a theory. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 35: 272-74.
44. Leege, David C. 1993. Religion and politics in theoretical perspective. In Rediscovering the Religious Factor in American Politics, edited by David C. Leege and Lyman A. Kellstedt, 3-25. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
45. Lijphart, A. 1975. The politics of accommodation: Pluralism and democracy in the Netherlands. Berkeley: University of California Press.
46. Mayer, Lawrence, and Roland Smith. 1985. Feminism and religiosity: Female electoral behavior in Western Europe. West European Politics 8(4): 38-49.
47. Neuhaus, Richard John, 1984. The naked public square: Religion and democracy in America. Grand Rapide, MI: Eerdmans.
48. Noelle-Neumann, Elisabeth. 1993. The spiral of silence: Public opinion: Our social skin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
49. Olson, Daniel V. A. August 1997. "Religious diversity and U.S. church membership: A reassessment," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, Toronto.
50. Reichley, A. James. 1985. Religion in American public life. Washington, D.C.: Brookings.
51. Roof, Wade Clark. 1976. Traditional religion in contemporary society: A theory of local-cosmopolitan plausibility. American Sociological Review 41: 195-208.
52. Roof, Wade Clark, and William McKinney. 1987. American mainline religion. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
53. Stark, Rodney. 1992. Do Catholic societies really exist? Rationality and Society 4: 261-71.
54. Stark, Rodney, Roger Finke, and Laurence R. Iannaccone. 1995. Pluralism and piety: England and Wales, 1851. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 34: 431-44.
55. Stark, Rodney, and Laurence R. Iannaccone, 1994. A supply-side reinterpretation of the "Secularization" of Europe. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 33: 230-52.
56. _. 1995. Truth? A reply to Bruce. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 34: 516-19.
57. _. 1996. Response to Lechner: Recent religious declines in Quebec, Poland, and the Netherlands: A theory vindicated. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 35: 265-71.
58. Stark, Rodney, and James C. McCann. 1993. Market forces and Catholic commitment: Exploring the new paradigm. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 32: 111-24.
59. Tate, R.L. 1984. Limitations of centering for interactive models. Sociological Methods and Research 13: 251-71.
60. Thung, M.A. 1983. From pillarization to new religious pluralism. Social Compass 30: 503-24.
61. Tinder, Glenn. 1989. The political meaning of Christianity. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
62. Tocqueville, Alexis de. 1945. Democracy in America. Edited by Phillips Bradley, 2 vols. New York: Vintage Books.
63. Wald, Kenneth D. 1992. Religion and politics in the United States (2d ed.). Washington, DC: CQ Press.
64. Wald, Kenneth D., Dennis E. Owen, and Samuel S. Hill. 1988. Churches as political communities. American Political Science Review 82: 531-48.
65. Warner, R. Stephen. 1993. Work in progress toward a new paradigm for the sociological study of religion in the United States. American Journal of Sociology 98: 1044-93.
66. Wills, Garry. 1990. Under God. New York: Simon and Schuster.