@article{624b9224cfa64e57b55609bbedbf0430,
title = "Religious awakenings and status politics: Sources of support for the new religious right",
abstract = "Explanations of conservative religio-political movements are examined regarding differing interpretations of historic religious awakenings in America and “status politics” interpretations of the contemporary New Religious Right Data about support for the New Religious Right from a Midwestern sample is used to examine these explanations. Results suggest that support for the New Religious Right is more strongly related to religious and cultural variables than to threatened statuses, as implied by status politics explanations. Implications for understanding the social dynamics of conservative religio-political movements are discussed.",
author = "Harper, {Charles L.} and Kevin Leicht",
note = "Funding Information: While he suggests the above scenario may be a limited and distorted one, Gannon's provocative theoretical analysis of the NRR compares its development with previous events in American history in which a revival of religious fervor was connected with subsequent dramatic changes in the political system. Such religio-political movements, most notably the {"}great awakenings{"} and revivals of the 1750s, 1820s, and 1890s were-in Gannon's words-related to a {"}value dislocati0n{"} That is, {"}an acute sense of personal stress that made people receptive to new religious appeals which.., could not confine themselves to calls for individual salvation, but had to address the social and political circumstances that created this stress{"} (1981:11). The first {"}great awakening{"} was an important prelude to the American revolution, the second helped usher in the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian eras, and the third focused on the conflict about issues related to industrialization and urbanization. This third {"}great awakening{"} of religious fervor at the end of the 19th cen- *The authors are grateful for support from the Comer College of Adult ReligiousE dcuation, the Creighton University Computing Center, and the Indiana UniversityI nstitute of Social Research. We are grateful for helpful comments on earlier drafts by Anson Shupe, John Simpson, Larry Griffin, anonymous revŸ and members of the Creighton University Research Colloquium. Copyright: Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "1984",
doi = "10.2307/3711298",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "45",
pages = "339--353",
journal = "Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review",
issn = "1069-4404",
publisher = "Association for the Sociology of Religion",
number = "4",
}