The Abortion Debate in American Christianity

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dc.bibliographicCitation.issue3
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume2
dc.contributor.authorBohrer, Bryan
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-09T13:11:30Z
dc.date.available2024-10-09T13:11:30Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.date.updated2024-10-09T08:26:18Z
dc.description.abstractWith religion serving an important role in shaping individuals’ stances on moral issues, the question of how religion impacts major social and political issues is of undeniable consequence. This paper explores both the response of Christian denominations in the USA to the evolving social dialog on abortion and the stances of affiliated members in relation to those denominational stances. For the first aspect, the organizational and authority structures of the denominations in question were examined to see if they play a role in how denominations responded to this social issue. For the second aspect, General Social Survey data were used to examine the general stances on abortion of the religiously affiliated belonging to specific polities over the past half-century. Polities were selected due to their similar organizational structures, as this granted insight into possible organizational influence at the individual level. This research highlights both the dissimilarities between similarly structured religious organizations and the general mindsets of the congregations on abortion as well as how the varying organizational structures in question exhibit inherent differences between one another yet have relative stability in their positions on abortion over time.
dc.description.sponsorshipOpen Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
dc.description.sponsorshipGESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V. (3447)
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s43545-022-00320-z
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/3146
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.journalSN Social Sciences
dc.rightsL::CC BY 4.0
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.subject.ddcddc:305
dc.subject.ddcddc:320
dc.subject.ddcddc:973
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudies
dc.subject.fieldreligiousstudies
dc.subject.fieldsocialscience
dc.subject.fieldpoliticalscience
dc.subject.fieldhistory
dc.titleThe Abortion Debate in American Christianity
dc.title.alternativeChurch Authority Structures, Denominational Responses, and the Stances of the Affiliated
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dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
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