Conscientious Women: The Dispositional Conditions of Institutional Treatment on Civic Involvement

Friesen, Amanda; Djupe, Paul A.

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“…Despite the fact that women participate in religious organizations at higher rates than men throughout a considerable portion of the world (Sullins, 2006), they are not practicing skills in congregations at higher rates than men, undercutting women's civic return on their religious investment. A follow-up piece (Friesen & Djupe, 2017) ratified that inequality in the United States and ascribed it to a particular Big Five personality trait: Conscientiousness. That is, the practice of civic skills was held down for highly conscientious women as their religious involvement levels increased.…”

Section: Religion and Political Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Religious Communication Approach and Political Behavior

Djupe

Neiheisel

2022

Political Psychology

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The religious communication approach concerns the identification of causal explanations of political behavior through the explicit measurement of exposure to communication and the variable reception and adoption of the messages in a religious context. The approach requires more questions or different research designs than those on omnibus surveys, which focus on religious affiliation and religiosity. It is particularly amenable to experimentation, where exposure is manipulated by the researcher and adoption can be measured precisely. However, experimental research, such as about religious elite influence, often returns different results than those from observational research wherein histories between clergy and congregants may overwhelm the delicate mechanisms of persuasion. Research from congregations points toward credibility and salience as important conditions for religious influence, which help reconcile experimental and observational results. This review article covers how organizational forces shape communication strategies, especially concerning when and how politics and democratic norms are engaged by clergy. Contrary to simple survey evidence that Americans oppose politics in churches, this approach suggests that politics is an important piece of congregational affairs that attracts and retains people, though there are clearly conditions when it repels. In this way, the religious communication approach is essential to understanding religious engagement with politics.

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Section: Religion and Political Participationmentioning

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The Religious Communication Approach and Political Behavior

Djupe

Neiheisel

2022

Political Psychology

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“…Gender not only affects women's roles within their house of worship. Women's investment in religious organizations does not result in the same civic payoffs as it does for men (Djupe, Sokhey, and Gilbert 2007; Friesen and Djupe 2017). Other research has concluded that nations with lower levels of religiosity have greater gender equality (Schnabel 2016).…”

Section: Gender Religion and Public Lifementioning

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The Gendered Religious Response to State Action on the Coronavirus Pandemic

2020

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Abstract State action to curtail the spread of the coronavirus has meant advising, and sometimes mandating, houses of worship to close to in-person worship. While mostly cooperative, the religious response has been varied and has exposed a hardened, defiant core. Informed by gendered religious worldviews, religious defiance is led by men and disproportionately supported by men. In this article, we document the extent of the defiance as of late March 2020 with our survey data and then investigate how gendered religious worldviews serve to track men to public roles and women to private ones. We attempt to confirm the nature of these effects with a gendered nationalism item and parallel gender gaps in political participation.

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“…Indeed, theories of descriptive representation suggest that characteristics like race and gender may shape the interests and foci of clergy. For example, female clergy are more likely to speak about gay marriage (Deckman, Crawford, and Olson 2008; Friesen and Djupe 2017) and Black clergy are more likely to engage in issues associated with race and civil rights. Women and minorities are attitudinally more likely to support social justice policies and are more likely to benefit from these policies (Holman 2015; Ondercin 2017).…”

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“…While scholarship often focuses on the political and religious experiences and attitudes of individuals (Jelen 1993; Margolis 2018), the importance of churches and clergy remains central to the study of politics and religion (Wilcox and Larson 2006). To date, a robust literature examines political activism in religious organizations primarily through surveys of religious leaders and congregants, case studies of particular churches, and qualitative work (Guth et al 1997; Djupe and Gilbert 2002; Deckman, Crawford, and Olson 2008; Glazier 2015; Friesen and Djupe 2017), showing that pastors engage in high levels of political communication in churches and that congregants receive and process those messages.…”

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Political Speech in Religious Sermons

Boussalis

Coan

Holman

2020

Politics and Religion

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Abstract Religious leaders and congregants alike report high levels of political discussions in their churches. Yet, direct observations of political topics in a wide set of religious settings are rare. We examine the nature of political speech by clergy with a novel dataset of over 110,000 sermons. Using a computational text analysis approach and multiple forms of validation, we find political content in more than a third of religious sermons and that seven of 10 pastors discuss political topics at some point. Common topics include the economy, war, homosexuality, welfare, and abortion. We then use a geographic data to link the sermons to demographic and political information around the church and to information about the church and pastor to evaluate the variation of political content in sermons. We find that most pastors—across location and denomination—engage around political topics, confirming the intertwined nature of religion and politics in the United States.

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Conscientious Women: The Dispositional Conditions of Institutional Treatment on Civic Involvement

Abstract: Current thinking about the effect of religion on civic engagement centers on "institutional treatment"-the development of resources, social pathways to recruitment, and motivation that occurs in small groups and activities of congregations. None of this work has yet

Cited by 7 publications

References 64 publications

The Religious Communication Approach and Political Behavior

The Religious Communication Approach and Political Behavior

The Gendered Religious Response to State Action on the Coronavirus Pandemic

Political Speech in Religious Sermons

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