Dennis E Owens
Biographic Data
| ID | 298145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis E Owens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis E |
| FAMILY NAME | Owens |
| SIGNATURE | OWENS D E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 302 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Authoritarian or Authority-Minded? The Cognitive Commitments of Fundamentalists and the Christian Right
One of the more consistent characterizations of both American Fundamentalism and other versions of conservative Evangelicalism is that these groups represent authoritarian religious and social systems. Such characterizations are not entirely without some basis in fact. Fundamentalism will almost always appear authoritarian, and so too will forms of Pentecostalism which, like Fundamentalism, place a heavy emphasis on correct thinking and combine a…
Political Cohesion in Churches
The political cohesiveness of religious groups varies widely. Some churches develop an almost complete identity with a political party or tendency while others exhibit a high degree of political pluralism. This paper explores some of the mechanisms that might account for the variability in political solidarity from one church to the next. On the basis of data from a survey of Protestant congregations, we find that cohesiveness around the norm of …
Reply to Miller
Evangelical Politics and Status Issues
The affinities between the New Christian Right and earlier mass-based moral reform movements have prompted scholars to revive the model of right-wing protest. This model asserts that moral reform movements attract groups who resent their cultural, political and moral devaluation by the dominant society. The model has rarely been tested empirically and then only with very rough proxies for status discontent. In a survey of churchgoers in a Souther…
Churches as Political Communities
Most studies of contextual influences on political attitudes and behavior have treated geographical areas as the operative social environment. As early research on social influence processes noted, the conditions that promote consensus among inhabitants of a common environment are likely to be present in formal organizations that encourage face-to-face interaction. Churches possess many of the characteristics that should maximize behavioral conta…
The New Religious Political Right in America
The New Religious Political Right in America
Journal Article The New Religious Political Right in America, by Samuel S. Hill and Dennis E. Owen. Nashville: Abingdon, 1982, 160 pp. $13.75 Get access John H. Simpson John H. Simpson University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 44, Issue 2, Summer 1983, Pages 164–165, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711401 Published: 01 July 1983
Churches as Political Communities
Most studies of contextual influences on political attitudes and behavior have treated geographical areas as the operative social environment. As early research on social influence processes noted, the conditions that promote consensus among inhabitants of a common environment are likely to be present in formal organizations that encourage face-to-face interaction. Churches possess many of the characteristics that should maximize behavioral conta…
Political Cohesion in Churches
The political cohesiveness of religious groups varies widely. Some churches develop an almost complete identity with a political party or tendency while others exhibit a high degree of political pluralism. This paper explores some of the mechanisms that might account for the variability in political solidarity from one church to the next. On the basis of data from a survey of Protestant congregations, we find that cohesiveness around the norm of …
Evangelical Politics and Status Issues
The affinities between the New Christian Right and earlier mass-based moral reform movements have prompted scholars to revive the model of right-wing protest. This model asserts that moral reform movements attract groups who resent their cultural, political and moral devaluation by the dominant society. The model has rarely been tested empirically and then only with very rough proxies for status discontent. In a survey of churchgoers in a Souther…
Authoritarian or Authority-Minded? The Cognitive Commitments of Fundamentalists and the Christian Right
One of the more consistent characterizations of both American Fundamentalism and other versions of conservative Evangelicalism is that these groups represent authoritarian religious and social systems. Such characterizations are not entirely without some basis in fact. Fundamentalism will almost always appear authoritarian, and so too will forms of Pentecostalism which, like Fundamentalism, place a heavy emphasis on correct thinking and combine a…
The New Religious Political Right in America
The New Religious Political Right in America
Journal Article The New Religious Political Right in America, by Samuel S. Hill and Dennis E. Owen. Nashville: Abingdon, 1982, 160 pp. $13.75 Get access John H. Simpson John H. Simpson University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 44, Issue 2, Summer 1983, Pages 164–165, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711401 Published: 01 July 1983
Churches as Political Communities
Most studies of contextual influences on political attitudes and behavior have treated geographical areas as the operative social environment. As early research on social influence processes noted, the conditions that promote consensus among inhabitants of a common environment are likely to be present in formal organizations that encourage face-to-face interaction. Churches possess many of the characteristics that should maximize behavioral conta…
Reply to Miller
Evangelical Politics and Status Issues
The affinities between the New Christian Right and earlier mass-based moral reform movements have prompted scholars to revive the model of right-wing protest. This model asserts that moral reform movements attract groups who resent their cultural, political and moral devaluation by the dominant society. The model has rarely been tested empirically and then only with very rough proxies for status discontent. In a survey of churchgoers in a Souther…
Political Cohesion in Churches
The political cohesiveness of religious groups varies widely. Some churches develop an almost complete identity with a political party or tendency while others exhibit a high degree of political pluralism. This paper explores some of the mechanisms that might account for the variability in political solidarity from one church to the next. On the basis of data from a survey of Protestant congregations, we find that cohesiveness around the norm of …
Authoritarian or Authority-Minded? The Cognitive Commitments of Fundamentalists and the Christian Right
One of the more consistent characterizations of both American Fundamentalism and other versions of conservative Evangelicalism is that these groups represent authoritarian religious and social systems. Such characterizations are not entirely without some basis in fact. Fundamentalism will almost always appear authoritarian, and so too will forms of Pentecostalism which, like Fundamentalism, place a heavy emphasis on correct thinking and combine a…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works) · Conservatism (2 works) · Law (2 works)