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Zusatztext Few observers of American Protestantism have displayed the insight and breadth of Corwin E. Smidt. Smidt's most recent work, Pastors and Public Life, is the latest addition to an impressive corpus of scholarly work about the public face of American Protestantism, with a particular and ongoing emphasis on the political roles played by Protestant clergy. Informationen zum Autor Corwin E. Smidt is Senior Fellow at The Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics, Calvin College. Klappentext Pastors and Public Life examines the changing sociological! theological! and political characteristics of American Protestant clergy. The book that gathers data based on a study of random national surveys of clergy across four mainline Protestant and three evangelical Protestant denominations over the course of twenty-plus years. Zusammenfassung Pastors and Public Life examines the changing sociological, theological, and political characteristics of American Protestant clergy. The book that gathers data based on a study of random national surveys of clergy across four mainline Protestant and three evangelical Protestant denominations over the course of twenty-plus years. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction The Changing World of Protestant Clergy; Chapter 1 Clergy as Public Actors; Chapter 2 The Social Characteristics of Clergy and the Churches They Serve; Chapter 3 The Theological Orientations of American Protestant Clergy; Chapter 4 The Social Theologies of American Protestant Clergy; Chapter 5 The Positions of Clergy on Contemporary Issues of Public Life; Chapter 6 The Political Norms and Psychological Resources of Clergy; Chapter 7 The Political Activities of Clergy within Congregational Life; Chapter 8 The Political Activism of Clergy; Conclusion Reflections on the Past! Thinking about the Future; Appendix A Number of Respondents and Response Rate by Denomination over Time; Appendix B Validating the Representativeness of the 2009 Cooperative Clergy Survey; Index ...
