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Seel, David John, Jr. "The Evangelical Meltdown: Modernity and the Hysteresis of Habitus," Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, 1992. Advisor: George Ritzer (Religous Studies, 2)
American evangelicals are acutely aware of their loss of hegemony in national life, and they have demonstrated a variety of cultural responses in their attempt to regain cultural standing. This study is an analysis of the current predicament of American evangelicals from the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu. It examines the following questions: (1) What has brought evangelicals to this predicament?; (2) What strengths and weaknesses do they exhibit in the light of this crisis of identity and influence?; (3) In the light of modern socio-cultural understandings, what would evangelicals need to reassert influence in American national life?; (4) What are their present responses to this crisis?; and (5) What are the prospects for their success? The overarching question addressed in the dissertation is this: Can orthodox belief maintain its social identity and expand its cultural influence within the context of advanced modernity? The study draws on a survey of 1,249 religious elites with a sample of 245 conservative Protestants conducted in 1987, as well as in-depth interviews with 25 evangelical leaders conducted in the spring and summer of 1992.
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