Uneasy Alliance: Conservative Catholics and the Christian Right.

From: Sociology of Religion | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: Bendyna, Mary E.; Green, John C.; Rozell, Mark J.; Wilcox, Clyde | Copyright information

Mark J. Rozell [*]

Christian Right organizations in the 1990s have tried to avoid the pitfalls of the religious particularism that undermined the earlier efforts of such groups as the Moral Majority to build long lasting political coalitions. For many Christian Right leaders, conservative Catholics appear to be a particularly appealing group to reach for membership recruitment and political coalition building. Yet such leading groups as the Christian Coalition have large...

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