{"id":12697,"date":"2023-12-13T17:43:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T17:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2023\/12\/13\/religions-role-in-competitive-political-ethos\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T13:44:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T17:44:29","slug":"religions-role-in-competitive-political-ethos","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2023\/12\/13\/religions-role-in-competitive-political-ethos\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion\u2019s role in \u2018competitive political ethos\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n

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<\/iframe><br \/>\n \n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The United States’ population is becoming less religious — 38 percent of younger Millennials consider religion “very important” in one’s life compared to 72 percent of the Greatest Generation, according to data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/religion\/religious-landscape-study\/generational-cohort\/\" aria-label=\"Pew Research data\">Pew Research Center<\/a>. But that trend doesn’t mean the country is seeing fewer faith-based influences in politics. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/academics\/undergraduate\/programs\/majors-minors\/sociology\/\" aria-label=\"sociology major\">Sociology<\/a> professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/jack-delehanty\/\" aria-label=\"professor bio\">Jack Delehanty<\/a> says it’s imperative to distinguish the difference between those who claim a religious identity or attend church versus those who subscribe to political or moral authority to appeal to some sense of sacred order.<\/p>\n<div class=\"csidebar right\"><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clarknow.clarku.edu\/2023\/10\/12\/having-faith-to-level-the-playing-field\/\" aria-label=\"ClarkNow story\">Read more<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Delehanty’s new <a href=\"https:\/\/uncpress.org\/book\/9781469673165\/making-moral-citizens\/\" aria-label=\"UNC Press website\">book<\/a>, “Making Moral Citizens: How Faith-Based Organizers Use Vocation for Public Action,” explores how religion can empower people to fight for social justice.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When people come together and talk about the issues that they care about, people agree on a lot,” says Delehanty. “The problem is that there aren’t that many spaces where people do that anymore. People don’t go to church that much anymore, or local libraries, bowling leagues — venues where previous generations would’ve encountered each other face to face and had an opportunity to trust one another. That’s gone. It creates a vacuum into which this highly structured competitive political ethos falls into place.”<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Challenge. Change.<\/strong> is produced by Andrew Hart and Melissa Hanson for Clark University. Listen and subscribe on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4UuYAjq1d3Hq45cjwxoCNL\" aria-label=\"listen on Spotify\">Spotify<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/challenge-change\/id1608025510\" aria-label=\"listen on Apple Podcasts\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>. 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