Born-Again Versus Evangelical: Does the Difference Make a Difference?

Although it has long been recognized that treating “born-again” and “evangelical” as equivalents is problematic, little scholarly effort has been made to assess whether the difference makes a difference. This study seeks to do so, assessing, in part, the extent to which the “born-again or evangelica...

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1. VerfasserIn: Smidt, Corwin E. 1946- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell 2022
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Jahr: 2022, Band: 61, Heft: 1, Seiten: 100-118
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Evangelikale Bewegung / Religiöse Identität / Erhebungsverfahren / Methodologie
RelBib Classification:AA Religionswissenschaft
CB Christliche Existenz; Spiritualität
KDD Evangelische Kirche
KDG Freikirche
weitere Schlagwörter:B Measurement
B religious identifications
B Evangelical
B Born-again
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Zusammenfassung:Although it has long been recognized that treating “born-again” and “evangelical” as equivalents is problematic, little scholarly effort has been made to assess whether the difference makes a difference. This study seeks to do so, assessing, in part, the extent to which the “born-again or evangelical Christian” survey question captures evangelical identities and whether the question has merit for capturing evangelical respondents. By analyzing surveys in which respondents were asked separate questions related to a “born-again” and an evangelical identity, this study addresses several issues related to such identities, including whether “born-again” and evangelical identities are the same, and, if not, whether the difference makes a difference. In the end, significant political differences emerge between those who identify as evangelicals and those who identify as “born-again,” suggesting that scholars and surveys would be better served to ask separate “born-again” and evangelical identity questions than to merge the two into one.
ISSN:1468-5906
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12762