Religiosity and Civil Rights Militancy

The implications of religion for support of the Negro struggle for equality are somewhat contradictory. As a normative source for inspiring protest against injustice, religion may perform an important instrumental role in encouraging white commitment to the civil rights movement. On the other hand,...

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Auteur principal: Eckhardt, Kenneth W. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Springer 1970
Dans: Review of religious research
Année: 1970, Volume: 11, Numéro: 3, Pages: 197-203
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Résumé:The implications of religion for support of the Negro struggle for equality are somewhat contradictory. As a normative source for inspiring protest against injustice, religion may perform an important instrumental role in encouraging white commitment to the civil rights movement. On the other hand, as a value system fostering spiritual transcendence of secular life, religious involvement may impede commitment to civil rights ideology. For a large sample of college students, analysis of the effect of religiosity on attitudinal support of the civil rights struggle indicates that the greater the religious commitment, the less the militancy. However, analysis further indicates that religion need not inhibit attitudes of protest when an active as opposed to a passive position of man's responsibility for social change is held.
ISSN:2211-4866
Contient:Enthalten in: Review of religious research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3510397