Militant and Cooperative Internationalism Among American Religious Publics Cover Image

Милитантни и кооперативни интернационализам у америчкој верској јавности
Militant and Cooperative Internationalism Among American Religious Publics

Author(s): James L. Guth
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Центар за проучавање религије и верску толеранцију
Keywords: Militant internationalism; cooperative internationalism; ethnoreligious tradition; religious traditionalism; American foreign policy

Summary/Abstract: Although there has been much speculation about the way that religion shapes American attitudes on foreign policy, there are few empirical analyses of that influence. This paper draws on a large national sample of the public in 2008 to classify religious groups on Eugene Wittkopf’s (1990) classic dimensions of foreign policy attitudes, militant internationalism and cooperative internationalism. We find rather different religious constituencies for each dimension and demonstrate the influence of ethnoreligiousand theologicalfactors on both. Combining the two dimensions, we show that American religious groups occupy different locations in Wittkopf’s hardliner, internationalist, accommodationist, and isolationistcamps.

  • Issue Year: VII/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 315-344
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: English