dc.contributor.author | Boussalis, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Coan, TG | |
dc.contributor.author | Holman, MR | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-11T09:29:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-07-09 | |
dc.description.abstract | Religious leaders and congregants alike report high levels of political discussions in their
churches. Yet, few opportunities emerge to directly observe political discussions in a wide set of
religious settings. We examine the nature of these political discussions with a novel dataset of
over 110,000 sermons. Using a computational text analysis approach and multiple forms of
validation, we find political discussions in more than a third of religious sermons and that seven
of ten pastors discuss political topics at some point. Common topics include the economy, war,
homosexuality, welfare, and abortion. We then use a geographic process to link the sermon
data to demographic and political information around the church as well as information about
the church and pastor to evaluate variation of political discussion in sermons. We find that
most pastors—across location and denomination—discuss most political topics, confirming the
intertwined nature of religion and politics in the United States. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 09 July 2020 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S1755048320000334 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 677278 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/40061 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) | en_GB |
dc.rights | © Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association 2020 | |
dc.subject | religion and politics | en_GB |
dc.subject | sermons | en_GB |
dc.subject | elites | en_GB |
dc.subject | pastors | en_GB |
dc.subject | political communication | en_GB |
dc.subject | Protestantism | en_GB |
dc.subject | text analysis | en_GB |
dc.title | Political Speech in Religious Sermons | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-12-11T09:29:57Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1755-0483 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Politics and Religion | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-12-08 | |
exeter.funder | ::Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | AM | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2019-12-08 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-12-11T09:27:42Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-07-10T08:29:17Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |