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The Role of Religious Value in Political Judgment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Extract

In The issues of the New York Times from February, 1965, to November, 1967, religious leaders and groups are reported 185 times commenting on one political issue: Vietnam. If a comparable search were done on an inclusive list of political topics, such as civil rights, the number of citations would be greatly multiplied. Most of these statements are on substantive issues — the United States should do this, do that — rather than on the theoretical questions about religion's role vis à vis politics. Most of these religious interventions presume some connection between religion and politics, whether articulated or not. A similar examination of some leading religious journals, for example, Chrisianity and Crisis, Commonweal, Christian Century, America, produces similar results: in articles and editorials, such publications are deeply immersed in direct commentary on political problems of our time.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1968

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* This article was presented as a lecture to the Père Marquette Tercentenary Conference on “Religion in Contemporary Society,” 04 1921, 1968.Google Scholar