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Religious Violence and Abortion: The Gideon Project - Softcover

Blanchard, Dallas A.; Prewitt, Terry J.

 
9780813011943: Religious Violence and Abortion: The Gideon Project
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813011949 ISBN 13: 9780813011943
Verlag: UNIV PR OF FLORIDA, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

   Their detailed account of the nationally publicized trial and the fundamentalist Christian community's response to the bombings will be important and compelling reading for those concerned with the abortion controversy and other issues that encompass social violence and contemporary religion. 

   Scholars will be interested in the work as a comprehensive sociological analysis of religious fundamentalism, an ideology that the authors tie to a medieval world view. Placing anti-abortion violence in the context of social movement theory, they conclude that persons who are predisposed toward such behavior are likely to be working-class males under age 35, socially isolated from countervailing attitudes. Religious fundamentalists, they warn, will continue to utilize violence in reaction to such subjects as pornography, homosexuality, sex education, equality for females, and prayer in public schools. 

   For this book the authors conducted interviews with local activists on both sides of the abortion issue. They interviewed local religious fundamentalists, personnel of clinics throughout the United States that have been subjected to arson or bombing, and, when possible, persons who have been tried and convicted of those offenses. In addition, they attended the Pensacola trial and fundamentalist church services.
 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dallas A. Blanchard is associate professor of sociology at the University of West Florida and a United Methodist minister. Terry J. Prewitt is associate professor of anthropology at the University of West Florida.

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Verlag
UNIV PR OF FLORIDA
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813011949
ISBN 13 
9780813011943
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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