Conservative Christians and Catholics
Conservative Christians and Catholics
Too Estranged for Alliance
This chapter addresses the question of whether anti-Catholic sentiments among Conservative Christians still persist. It examines two slurs—Catholics are not permitted to think for themselves and the Rosary is a superstitious devotion. About a third of Americans who are not Catholic accept the two slurs, another third refuse to either agree or disagree, and a final third reject them. Denial of Catholic freedom to think correlates significantly only with two variables—South and Conservative Christian. When the same battery is applied to the Rosary, women are more likely to reject the charge that the Rosary is superstitious and Southerners and Conservative Protestants continue to be less likely than other Americans to reject it. Among the Conservative Protestants, the Pentecostals are even more inclined to accept the anti-Catholic stereotypes.
Keywords: anti-Catholic sentiments, Conservative Protestants, Rosary, Pentecostals, Catholics
Chicago Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
