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Gospels of (Anti)Inequality : = The Politics of Biblical Interpretation in the New Poor People's Campaign and Capitol Ministries.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gospels of (Anti)Inequality :/
Reminder of title:	The Politics of Biblical Interpretation in the New Poor People's Campaign and Capitol Ministries.
Author:	Tschudy, Jonathan P.
Description:	1 online resource (342 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-04A.
Subject:	Political science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29395465click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798351468839

Gospels of (Anti)Inequality : = The Politics of Biblical Interpretation in the New Poor People's Campaign and Capitol Ministries.
Tschudy, Jonathan P.

Gospels of (Anti)Inequality :The Politics of Biblical Interpretation in the New Poor People's Campaign and Capitol Ministries. - 1 online resource (342 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation explores the role of biblical interpretation in the politics of inequality in the United States. Building on scholarship in American Political Development that identifies ideas as integral to institution building, I analyze the interplay between biblical interpretations, organizational structures, and political strategies within two contemporary religio-political groups: the New Poor People's Campaign (NPPC) and Capitol Ministries (CM). Methodologically, I combine in-depth, interpretative readings of primary source documents with an historical institutional analysis of the secondary literature on the role of religion in American politics. I argue that the two organizations' elite leaders - Reverends William Barber II and Liz Theoharis (NPPC) and Pastor Ralph Drollinger (CM) - are religious versions of Hans Noel's "coalition merchants" because they "inherit, modify, and transform" (in the words of Rogers M. Smith) pre-existing religio-political ideas in order to justify their respective political agendas and strategies related to issues of inequality. This "strategic agency" (in words of Smith) has been critical to interest formation and coalition building for both groups as they seek to advance their desired policies and visions for American society within government institutions and among the public at large. Additionally, I argue that these elites' biblical interpretations have the potential to affect American politics in ways that extend beyond the success or failure of each group's political agenda, by, for instance, increasing or mitigating affective and policy-based polarization and shaping Americans' orientations toward democracy at both the elite and mass levels. More generally, the dissertation suggests that the study of religion and politics, and the study of the politics of inequality, would each benefit from a better understanding of religio-political ideas and discourses, and the religio-political actors who generate them, in shaping policy agendas and political outcomes. Contrary to influential political theories that contrast orthodox religious conservatism with modernist religious liberalism, or that claim the former by definition results in political and economic conservatism, this dissertation demonstrates that theologically conservative religion can be mobilized for conservative or progressive political ends across multiple American inequality issues.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798351468839Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Political science.
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