Item Detail
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10577
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10
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English
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Mormonism and the Moral Majority Make Strange Bedfellows? An Exploratory Critique
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Review of Religious Research
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March 1987
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28
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236-51
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The possibility of an emerging alliance between Mormons and Conservative Christians as posited by Shupe and Heinerman ('Review of Religious Research', 27:146-57) is examined. Using data from a survey on the questions of value congruence and religious social distance, they observe that both Mormons and fundamentalist Christians agree on most socio-religious issues. However, Conservative Christians manifest an intense aversion to Mormons. Moreover, the ultra-conservative rhetoric of the fundamentalists is foreign to mainstream Mormonism. Most Mormons have an abiding respect for authority, both religious and civil. The researchers conclude that an emerging alliance between these two historically hostile groups is unlikely, but if coalitions form between them it will likely occur with political fringe groups on the Mormon periphery.
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