| | Conservative Christianity may refer to an opinion or advocacy position on certain political issues such as abortion, homosexuality, creationism, science education, taxation, affirmative action, gun control, treatment of prisoners, immigration, racial segregation, public education, global warming, capital punishment, and divorce. | | Conservative Christianity may refer to an opinion or advocacy position on certain political issues such as abortion, homosexuality, creationism, science education, taxation, affirmative action, gun control, treatment of prisoners, immigration, racial segregation, public education, global warming, capital punishment, and divorce. |
| | + | Since the mid-1970's [[liberal]] sociologists have struggled to explain the popularity of Conservative Christianity<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=DJsA6SRr39sC ''Why Conservative Churches are Growing: A Study in Sociology of Religion''], Dean M. Kelley, Harper & Row, 1972 (reprinted 1986 with ISBN 0865542244) </ref> <ref> Chapter 5 "The Popularity of the Christian Right" [http://books.google.com/books?id=8yfIgQz3bL8C ''The Resilience of Christianity in the Modern World''], Joseph B. Tamney, SUNY Press, 1992, ISBN 0791408213, 9780791408216, 178 pages </ref> |