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Do Protestant Missionaries Undermine Political Authority? Evidence From Peru
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Abstract The relation between religious organizations and political authority is notoriously tense. Max Weber argued that this is because both compete over the same resource: human commitment. This article revisits Weber’s hypothesis. Specifically, we explore two psychological mechanisms through which Protes... mehr
The relation between religious organizations and political authority is notoriously tense. Max Weber argued that this is because both compete over the same resource: human commitment. This article revisits Weber’s hypothesis. Specifically, we explore two psychological mechanisms through which Protestant missionaries affect political authority: obedience and persuadability. Exploiting exogenous variation in missionary activity in Peru, we demonstrate that missionaries make converts more obedient, which we attribute to a theological and a social mechanism. Yet, we also find that missionaries make converts less susceptible to persuasion by political authorities because they shift attention from secular topics to questions of theological importance, and endorse a skeptical stance toward the government. Exploiting variation in treatment intensity, we argue that the degree to which political authority is affected depends on a given mission’s theological strictness. We arrive at these findings by combining experimental outcomes and process-tracing evidence using Bayesian integration.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Religion; Missionar; Politik; Peru; Lateinamerika
Klassifikation
Religionssoziologie
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Seitenangabe
S. 477-513
Zeitschriftentitel
Comparative political studies, 51 (2018) 4
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177384
ISSN
1552-3829
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung
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