The Churches and Social Change in Twentieth-Century America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9749265 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Y Glock (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 527 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-83 |
| Publication date | 1993-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716293527001006 |
| OpenAlex | W2139830211 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 8 |
The twentieth century has witnessed a number of major social changes that have affected America's churches by virtue of the changes challenging traditional interpretations of scripture. Among these changes have been declines in anti-Semitism and racial prejudice and discrimination, and transformations in the role and status of women and in sexual practices and attitudes. In the past, scripture has been used to justify anti-Semitism, discrimination against Afro-Americans, women's being subordinate to men, and opposition to divorce, premarital sex, adultery, and homosexuality. Churches have responded to the social changes, sometimes by modifying scriptual interpretations to accommodate them, sometimes by standing fast against them. The differences in response prove to be highly associated with differences in church performance. They also have sharply varying implications for the churches' future, especially their ability to exercise moral authority
Adultery · Homosexuality · Opposition (politics · Political science · Prejudice (legal term · Social change · Sociology · Virtue · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · Law · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Psychology
Religiousness and Spirituality
Religion and Violence
Church Attendance in the United States
Religion and the New Immigrants
Dis/location
Latina Empowerment, Border Realities, and Faith-Based Organizations
Beyond the Synagogue Walls
Religion and Health
Escaping the Procustean Bed
Historicizing the Secularization Debate
Studying Religion, Making it Sociological
Civil Society and Civil Religion as Mutually Dependent
The Dynamics of Religious Economies
The Ritual Roots of Society and Culture
Religious Social Movements in the Public Sphere
Mapping the Moral Order
Religion and Political Behavior
“Worldly” or “Other Worldly”?
Religion and Spirituality
Demographic Methods for the Sociology of Religion
In Rhetoric and Practice
The Sociology of Religion in Late Modernity
The Evolution of the Sociology of Religion
Social Forms of Religion and Religions in Contemporary Global Society
Religious Socialization
Religious Identities and Religious Institutions
Religion, Faith-Based Community Organizing, and the Struggle for Justice
A Journey of the “Straight Way” or the “Roundabout Path”
Handbook of the Sociology of Religion
Group Position, Collective Threat, and American Anti-Semitism
Making Inclusive Communities
Social change and the corporate construction of gay markets in the New York Times’ advertising business news
Culture, Segregation, and Tolerance in Urban America
Marital Formation and Infidelity
Religion and the Politics of Sexuality
| Citations per year | 1.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2014 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |