CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Adomeit, Fynn Erik |
|---|---|
| Title | Religious Mobilization In The United States: The Christian Churches In Times Of War |
| Summary | Why did the Christian Churches in the United States mobilize at times against war and at times supported it? This thesis will take a closer look into the conditions that triggered the liberal Protestant, the black Protestant, the conservative Protestant churches as well as the Catholic church to mobilize against or offer support for a war that a given US administration pursued. The scope will be on World War I, the Vietnam War, and the War in Iraq. To do so, Qualitative Comparative Analysis will be applied as a method since the presence and the absence of the outcome are qualitatively different sets (mobilization against is not the symmetric opposite of support for war). This thesis finds that a combination of four conditions is of importance: Doctrines about war, unity, a high degree of organization, and whether a strategic coalition with the political administration is present or not. As it will be shown, the findings can be well explained on the basis of already existing social movement literature, posing the question whether religious groups that (do not) mobilize are essentially different from other stakeholders, like social movements. Moreover, it is questionable whether theories that focus on different aspects regarding the factors that lead to political mobilization, like a religious market perspective, capture the political mobilization of religion equally well. |
| Supervisor | Greskovits, Béla |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/adomeit_fynn.pdf |
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