Clergy Involvement in Civil Rights

Jeffrey K. Hadden
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Jeffrey K. Hadden: Tulane University

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1970, vol. 387, issue 1, 118-127

Abstract: Historically, the churches have been more on the side of the status quo than on the frontiers of change and the achievement of social justice. The occupants of the pews con tinue to resist change, but those who occupy the pulpits have, to a considerable degree, experienced a deepening commitment to, and involvement in, the struggle for social justice. This is leading to the deepest schism in the churches since the Prot estant Reformation. The efforts of clergymen to make the faith relevant to the civil rights movement must be seen in a broader context of internal upheavals over the meaning and purpose of the faith, doctrinal belief, and the exercise of au thority. Lay resistance to involvement of the clergy is serious enough to raise the question of whether religion in its present institutional forms will survive.

Date: 1970
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DOI: 10.1177/000271627038700114

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