Protestant-Catholic Tensions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4865618 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John J Kane (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1951 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 663 |
| Publication date | 1951-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2087360 |
| OpenAlex | W2312477210 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
T HERE is a current impression that Protestant-Catholic relationships in the United States are shifting in the direction of conflict. Bases for such impression are a best-seller book portraying the Catholic hierarchy as a threat to American freedom; organization of a society known as Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State; legislation to prevent Catholic sisters from teaching in public schools in their habits; the ouster of sisters and brothers from public schools entirely; and controversies over the use of public school buses by parochial school children. There are still other signs and at least two national magazines have published articles on this topic.1 This paper attempts to discover: (1) what empirical evidence exists to warrant such impression; (2) if tensions do exist, in what areas are they strongest; and (3) what factors appear to underlie such tensions. The term Protestant in this paper refers to persons who are members of those religious bodies such as Episcopalian, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian and others stemming from the movement known historically as the Protestant Reformation. Catholics include members of the body known officially as the Roman Catholic Church. The term tension is of psychological origin, and as such refers to some degree of disharmony, discrepancy, imbalance or the like in an organism resulting in restlessness, anxiety, desire, need and demands. It is motivation to change a present situa
Political science · Protestantism · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1956 - 1961 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |