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Darin Mather on Evangelicals and Racial Attitudes

Tags: affirmative action, African-Americans, Baby Boomers, Bethel University, contact theory, evangelicals, Hispanics, Mark Driscoll, Peter Berger, racial attitudes, racial diversity, racial reconciliation, racial solidarity, relativism, Republicans

Darin Mather, a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota, discusses changing racial attitudes among younger evangelicals (defined as being born after 1957) and their elders, showing how the former are much more tolerant than the latter. Mather’s research also demonstrates that younger evangelicals are becoming more tolerant of racial diversity and have a greater sense of racial solidarity much like their younger non-evangelical counterparts. However, we note that younger evangelicals differ from their peers on public policy issues such as affirmative action and economic assistance to historically disadvantaged communities. We explore reasons for these similarities and differences.

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Joseph Daniels on Religion and Trust

Tags: bonding trust, Bowling Alone, bridging trust, Catholics, Does, evangelicals, free trade, fundamentalists, immigration, liberal Protestants, Pentecostals, Robert Putnam, social capital, social trust

Prof. Joseph Daniels of Marquette University discusses why the two different kinds of social trust — “bridging” and “bonding” — are important for society and how religion matters in generating and maintaining this trust. It is noted that religious attendance significantly enhances social trust, although there are some denominational effects that temper this increase. We also discuss how different denominations view free trade and immigration.

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