Rejoinder to Hunter

Religious Orthodoxy: An Army without Foot Soldiers

Bibliographic Data

ID2514734
AuthorsNancy J Davis, Robert V Robinson
Year1996
Volume35
Issue3
Pages249
Publication date1996-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8294 • E-ISSN: 1468-5906
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1386555
OpenAlexW2332491657
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited4

qualification of these authors that religious liberalism and conservatism onJy tend align with political liberalism and conservatism. We pointed out, however, that Wuthnow and Hunter strongly implied that individuals at the poles of religious orthodoxy and moral progressivism are like-minded through their portrayal of the sides as camps, their use of war metaphors to describe the religious struggle, their inattention to divisions within the sides along lines of race, class, and gender, and, in Hunter's case, the claim that many separate struggles over abortion, school prayer, affirmative action, busing, etc., share a common root in fundamentally different moral cosmologies. We also noted that the mass media and political and religious leaders portray the sides as more nearly monolithic than do Wuthnow and Hunter. Our findings of little political uniformity among the religiously orthodox are more damning of the claims of the mass media, religious leaders, and politicians than they are of Wuthnow's and Hunter's more qualified positions

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