- Tytuł:
- A contemporary religious political movement: LDS Church’s nation-wide political campaigns
- Autorzy:
- Potz, Maciej
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/647625.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2016
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
- Tematy:
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Mormonism
political movements
religion and politics
Equal Rights Amendment
same-sex marriage - Opis:
- Drawing empirically on the examples of the Church of Latter-Day Saints’ (Mormon) participation in anti-ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) ratification campaign and its latest attempts to influence other political issues of moral consequences (such as same-sex marriage) in the United States, the paper attempts to analyse the dynamics of a contemporary religiously motivated political movement.Despite being, on any of these issues, a part of a wider coalition of political actors, the Mormon church displayed a specifically religious motivation, justification and modus operandi. Owing to strong religious legitimacy of their power – based on the doctrine of continuous revelation and enhanced by a sort of “personality cult” of the Church President-Prophet developing in late 20th century – the leadership of the church has been capable of effective grassroots mobilization, achieved through a disciplined universal priesthood structure.While, from the theoretical point of view, this Mormon political movement is of a traditional, “old” variation (ideological and social cohesion of members, well-defined, stable membership, hierarchical leadership etc.) it has nevertheless been relatively successful in modern political environment. The Mormon engagement, at least in the anti-ERA campaign, had made a difference certainly in Utah, and probably elsewhere as well.
- Źródło:
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Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, sectio K – Politologia; 2016, 23, 1
1428-9512
2300-7567 - Pojawia się w:
- Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, sectio K – Politologia
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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