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What congregations are more political?

By Alliance Alert

Mark Chaves, Professor of Sociology, Religion, and Divinity at Duke University and Director of the National Congregations Study, writes at the Duke Divinity Call & Response Blog: "First, notwithstanding extensive media coverage of political mobilization within conservative churches, conservative white Protestant churches do not stand out in their level of political activity. Catholic and black Protestant churches, overall, are more politically active than either liberal or conservative white Protestants . . . Second, although political activity of some sort is common in American churches, religious traditions have different political styles. Distributing voter guides is the most common way that white conservative Protestant churches do politics."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 13, 2010 (boomark / email).