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Pastors and Public Life - The Changing Face of American Protestant Clergy (Hardcover)
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Pastors and Public Life - The Changing Face of American Protestant Clergy (Hardcover)
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Though clergy are clearly important religious leaders within
American society, their significance extends far beyond the church
doors. Clergy are also important figures within American public
life. They are so, in part, because houses of worship stand at the
center of American civic life. Gathering to worship is a religious
activity, but it is also an important public activity in that,
beyond its religious qualities, congregational life brings together
relatively diverse individuals for sustained periods of time,
frequently on a fairly regular basis. Based on data gathered
through national surveys of clergy across four mainline Protestant
(the Disciples of Christ; the Presbyterian Church, USA; the
Reformed Church in America; and the United Methodist Church) and
three evangelical Protestant denominations (the Assemblies of God;
the Christian Reformed Church; and, the Southern Baptist
Convention), Pastors and Public Life examines the changing
sociological, theological, and political characteristics of
American Protestant clergy. In this book, Corwin E. Smidt examines
what has changed and what has stayed the same with regard to the
clergy's social composition, theological beliefs, and perspectives
related to the public witness of the church within American society
across three different points in time over the past twenty-plus
years. Smidt focuses on the relationship between clergy and
politics, particularly clergy positions on issues of American
public policy, norms on what is appropriate for clergy to do
politically, as well as the clergy's political cue-giving, their
pronouncements on public policy, and political activism. Written in
a manner that makes it accessible to pastors and church laity-yet
of interest and value to scholars as well-Pastors and Public Life
constitutes the first and only published study that systematically
examines such changes and continuity over time.
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