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2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Social Contribution Movement by Christian Evangelicals in the U.S.: Tackling the Problem of Poverty

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 19K00083
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 01030:Religious studies-related
Research InstitutionReitaku University

Principal Investigator

HORIUCHI Kazunobu  麗澤大学, 国際学部, 特任教授 (60306404)

Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Keywordsキリスト教福音派 / 宗教右派 / ジェリー・ファルウェル / 新福音派 / ビリー・グレアム / 福音派左派 / ロナルド・サイダー
Outline of Final Research Achievements

American Christian evangelicals are diverse and differ in their views of poverty and their involvement in poverty eradication depending on their view of salvation as it relates to eschatology. Fundamentalist and Religious Right such as Jerry Falwell and neo-evangelicals such as Billy Graham emphasized conversion and agreed that atonement for personal sins could lift people out of poverty, but since the late 1970s, the fundamentalist Falwell has believed that poverty can be solved by a liberal economy. On the other hand, evangelical left such as Ronald Sider emphasized the atonement of personal sins through conversion, as well as the atonement of social sins through social reform.

Free Research Field

宗教社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

宗教右派などの宗教・政治の保守化に焦点を当てた研究が多くなされる中で、宗教的保守であっても政治的にはリベラルな福音派左派に関する研究はあまり研究者の関心を惹きつけて来なかった。しかし、オバマ政権樹立の背景には、若者層や無神論者のほか、福音派左派の存在が明らかになった。本研究の希少性に学問的意義がある。
また本研究は、福音派左派の成立の経緯および運動内容を記述することで、この運動が今後の米国社会や政治に及ぼす影響を読み解く一助となるという意味で、社会的・政治的意義を有する。

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Published: 2023-01-30  

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