Flashcards on Religion in the United States
Religion in the United States: History, Trends & Conflicts
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Religion in the United States: Society & Culture
27 cards
Card 1
Question: What trend is shown regarding intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews from 1965 to 1983?
Answer: Intermarriage rose from 3% in 1965 to 17% in 1983.
Card 2
Question: How do special-agenda religious organizations influence the cultural axis in religion?
Answer: They increase polarization by clustering at opposite poles of a cultural axis: orthodoxy vs. progressivism.
Card 3
Question: According to the content, where does most conflict in contemporary religious culture occur?
Answer: Between believers and nonbelievers rather than between individual religious groups.
Card 4
Question: How did 9/11 affect perceptions of religion in cultural conflict?
Answer: It made groups like al-Qaeda a reference point for critics (e.g., atheists) who argued that religion can be inherently destructive.
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Question: What characterizes the 'secularists' or 'moderns' in the cultural conflict over religion?
Answer: A humanistic outlook with respect for individual autonomy and freedom.
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Question: What is the primary basis of the major realignment in religious-cultural conflicts today?
Answer: Disagreements over sources of moral truth, creating rifts between progressives and religious conservatives rather than doctrinal disputes between fait
Card 7
Question: List the main social issues identified as central to the cultural conflict over religion.
Answer: Evolution, abortion, sex, LGBTQ rights, stem-cell research, and the origin/veracity of the Bible.
Card 8
Question: How has support for abortion legality changed by party affiliation from 2010 to 2023 according to the content?
Answer: The material presents PRRI data showing percent support for abortion legality by party from 2010–2016 and 2018–2023, indicating shifts in support acro
Card 9
Question: What does the 2010 vs. 2023 figure about abortion legality by party, age, and gender illustrate?
Answer: It compares percent saying abortion should be legal in all or most cases across party, age, and gender for 2010 and 2023 (sample sizes too small for s
Card 10
Question: How has the teaching of evolution remained contentious in U.S. culture as shown by the Scopes Trial reference?
Answer: Although the 1925 Scopes Trial discredited fundamentalists then, resistance persists: some textbooks now label evolution as a controversial theory and