A Politics of Conversion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curtis J. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Family Values ◽  
Sexual Revolution ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Social Vision ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Social Agenda ◽  
Values And Beliefs

This chapter suggests that Billy Graham’s political and social vision is most aptly described as a “politics of conversion,” a means to enlist Christians to participate more actively in changing the nation to reflect their values and beliefs. In his early ministry, Graham offered assessments of social and political issues that put him at odds with any straightforward valorization of America as a chosen nation. Even so, Graham’s growing alarm at the sexual revolution, the “rights revolution,” crime in urban centers, the negative implications of technology, and rapidly growing communism all led him increasingly toward a conservative political position. Graham then was a catalyst in the emergence of a politics of family values, patriotism, and fighting crime that gained enormous support across the country by the late 1960s and laid the religious groundwork for the emerging New Christian Right’s strong opposition to the cultural and social agenda of leftist liberalism.

Parenting and Politics: The Personal and the Political in the Evangelical Family Values Movement

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-75
Author(s):  
Hilde Løvdal Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Cultural Activism ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Billy Graham ◽  
Christian Family ◽  
Conservative Protestants

Today, evangelical Christians in the U.S. are known for their passion for the so-called traditional family and engagement in political and cultural battles over children and child rearing. That has not always been the case. This article examines how parenting became a cultural and political battleground for evangelicals in the last decades of the 20th century. Conservative Protestants have engaged with politics and culture in the past. They supported the Prohibition movement; they opposed Darwin’s theory of evolution; they worried about the decadent culture of the 1920s. In the late 1900s, however, child rearing and parenting became a catch-all framework for all their concerns. Parenting took on new, profound meaning. Preachers like Billy Graham would reject his former notions that he was called to preach, saying he was first and foremost called to father. Evangelical Christian family experts like James Dobson and Larry Christenson linked parenting to social order. Family experts guided evangelicals in their political and cultural activism, telling them that the personal is political and that political issues can be solved one family at a time.

From the light of truth to the dark alleys of tyranny

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-183
Author(s):  
Marta Degani
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Political Speeches

Abstract The present study aims at exploring the evocative power of metaphor in a number of remarkable American political speeches. The investigation concentrates on the metaphorical framing of political issues in terms of light and darkness. The analysis is carried out on a corpus consisting of the top 100 political speeches in the twentieth century according to a ranking given by American rhetoricians in a national survey (http://www. news.wisc.edu/misc/speeches). Overall, the study shows how the metaphorical uses of the evocative concepts of light and darkness have facilitated the communication of central political ideas, values and beliefs in twentieth century American political rhetoric.

DIMENSIONS OF PERSONAL VALUES FOR BUDDING MANAGERS

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pallavi Pathak
Keyword(s):  
Personal Values ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Terminal Values ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Instrumental Values ◽  
Management Students ◽  
The Given ◽  
Special Meaning ◽  
Over Time

Value is a shared idea about how something is ranked in terms of desirability, worth or goodness. The decisions we make are a reflection of our values and beliefs, and they are always directed towards a specific purpose. Our terminal values define the overarching goals that we hope to achieve in our lifetime; our instrumental values define how we go about reaching these goals. Our instrumental values influence the ways in which we go about achieving our end goals, making sure we do this in ways that are socially acceptable. Values and their hierarchy can change over time. They emerge with a special meaning, and change throughout life, because they are related to individual interests and needs. When we are children, our values are for the most part defined by subsistence and by wanting the approval of our parents. In our adolescence, our values are derived from the need to experiment and be independent, and when we are adults, we have other priorities. The present paper highlights the nature, importance and typology of values. The higher the total in any area, the higher the value one places on that particular area. It was found in the present study that among all the given areas, the management students found the financial dimension of values as the most important one for them. It was followed by professional and Family values.

Alone on the ramparts

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-68
Author(s):  
Peter Buell Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Political Position ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role that corporate political positioning taking is playing in exacerbating political polarization and to suggest that, by contrast, corporations could also play a role in healing some of the increasing divides in democracies around the world. Design/methodology/approach The paper looks at recent examples of companies taking political positions on controversial public issues and public reactions to those positions in the media. Findings The author’s analysis suggests that with each subsequent political position announced by companies, the stakes for more extreme and noisy pronouncements become higher and higher. This threatens to be an unsustainable journey, and companies will need to find new ways to communicate their commitment to customers and other stakeholders. Originality/value While there has been wide discussion of the increasing propensity of companies to take public positions on social and political issues, the author believes this is the first viewpoint to examine the consequences of this trends over the longer term and its impact on polarization.

scholarly journals Who Favors Education? Insights from the World Values Survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 509-541
Author(s):  
Horst Feldmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Family Values ◽  
World Values Survey ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Political Position ◽  
The World ◽  
Status Number ◽  
Per Capita

Abstract Using World Values Survey data from 55 countries, this article provides detailed insights into the characteristics of people who place a high value on education – and into the characteristics of those who don’t. It finds that attitudes toward education vary across the following characteristics: educational attainment, income, social class, political position, postmaterialist values, religion, sex, age, ethnicity, marital status, number of children, family values and employment status. Countries’ average GDP per capita affects people’s views of education too. Whereas some results are in line with theoretical expectations and previous empirical research, others are surprising.

Fostering the Literacy of indigenous Elementary School-Age Children

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Frome Loeb ◽  
Kathy Redbird
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Reading Curriculum ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Elementary School Age ◽  
Values And Beliefs

Abstract Purpose: In this article, we describe the existing literacy research with school-age children who are indigenous. The lack of data for this group of children requires speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to use expert opinion from indigenous and non-indigenous people to develop culturally sensitive methods for fostering literacy skills. Method: We describe two available curricula developed by indigenous people that are available, which use authentic materials and embed indigenous stories into the learning environment: The Indian Reading Series and the Northwest Native American Reading Curriculum. We also discuss the importance of using cooperative learning, multisensory instruction, and increased holistic emphasis to create a more culturally sensitive implementation of services. We provide an example of a literacy-based language facilitation that was developed for an indigenous tribe in Kansas. Conclusion: SLPs can provide services to indigenous children that foster literacy skills through storytelling using authentic materials as well as activities and methods that are consistent with the client's values and beliefs.

Filled with Spirit and Power: Protestant Clergy in Politics. By Laura R. Olson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 174p. $57.50 cloth, $18.95 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 1005-1006
Author(s):  
Paul J. Weber
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
African American ◽  
Family Values ◽  
State University ◽  
Protestant Clergy ◽  
African American Pastors ◽  
The Family ◽  
Limited Scope

Laura Olson is one of a small but energetic and influential group of Christian political scientists determined to bring the debate politically legitimate called it either racist or sexist. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, African American pastors held the most consistently conservative views on family values, although they also saw the connections among crime, violence, and the deterioration of the family. Within the authorÕs intentionally limited scope, this is an excellent study, but one should be cautious about generalizing.

Intergenerational Family Relations in Luxembourg

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Albert ◽  
Dieter Ferring ◽  
Tom Michels
Keyword(s):  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Generation Gap ◽  
Intergenerational Solidarity ◽  
Acculturation Gap ◽  
Family Obligations ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Model Family

According to the intergenerational solidarity model, family members who share similar values about family obligations should have a closer relationship and support each other more than families with a lower value consensus. The present study first describes similarities and differences between two family generations (mothers and daughters) with respect to their adherence to family values and, second, examines patterns of relations between intergenerational consensus on family values, affectual solidarity, and functional solidarity in a sample of 51 mother-daughter dyads comprising N = 102 participants from Luxembourgish and Portuguese immigrant families living in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Results showed a small generation gap in values of hierarchical gender roles, but an acculturation gap was found in Portuguese mother-daughter dyads regarding obligations toward the family. A higher mother-daughter value consensus was related to higher affectual solidarity of daughters toward their mothers but not vice versa. Whereas affection and value consensus both predicted support provided by daughters to their mothers, affection mediated the relationship between consensual solidarity and received maternal support. With regard to mothers, only affection predicted provided support for daughters, whereas mothers’ perception of received support from their daughters was predicted by value consensus and, in the case of Luxembourgish mothers, by affection toward daughters.

Assessments of User Comments With “Alternative Views” as a Function of Media Trust

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Marlene Kunst
Keyword(s):  
Online Discussions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Argument Quality ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Media Trust ◽  
Heuristic Information Processing

Abstract. Comments sections under news articles have become popular spaces for audience members to oppose the mainstream media’s perspective on political issues by expressing alternative views. This kind of challenge to mainstream discourses is a necessary element of proper deliberation. However, due to heuristic information processing and the public concern about disinformation online, readers of comments sections may be inherently skeptical about user comments that counter the views of mainstream media. Consequently, commenters with alternative views may participate in discussions from a position of disadvantage because their contributions are scrutinized particularly critically. Nevertheless, this effect has hitherto not been empirically established. To address this gap, a multifactorial, between-subjects experimental study ( N = 166) was conducted that investigated how participants assess the credibility and argument quality of media-dissonant user comments relative to media-congruent user comments. The findings revealed that media-dissonant user comments are, indeed, disadvantaged in online discussions, as they are assessed as less credible and more poorly argued than media-congruent user comments. Moreover, the findings showed that the higher the participants’ level of media trust, the worse the assessment of media-dissonant user comments relative to media-congruent user comments. Normative implications and avenues for future research are discussed.

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