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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of religion, prayer, and politics. The content of prayer is correlated with political views via a scientific research study. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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relation to ones political orientation in order to "examine relations between self-reported political orientation and the content of prayer narratives" (Hanek, Olson, & McAdams, 2011). The fundamental assumption of the
study is that when people pray, they "enact behaviors and express thoughts and emotions that convey deep religious meanings... and their own psychological states and dispositions" (Hanek, Olson, & McAdams,
2011). In other words, the authors were attempting to discover not only differences in how politics correlates to perception of religion, but also how political orientation relates to more fundamental
psychological dispositions. This also has a more broad political purpose as well, as the authors suppose that religious sentiments have historically shaped major political issues in American, citing Prohibition and
the civil rights movement as major examples (Hanek, Olson, & McAdams, 2011). One of the assumptions of the study was that conservatives would pray with a narrative centered on asking
God for protection for themselves and others from evil forces, whereas liberals would pray with a narrative centered on asking God to provide for themselves and others. The method employed
by the researchers was simple. They recruited some 128 Christians from Chicago and the surrounding area, with the qualifiers that the participants were active churchgoers and had voted in the
2004 presidential election (Hanek, Olson, & McAdams, 2011). The sample was quite diverse as well, in terms of ethnicity, gender, and denominational affiliation. The 128 participants consisted of 78 women
and 50 men, with ages ranging from 28 to 74 years; "92 were European American (71.9%), 33 African American (25.8%), 2 Asian American (1.6%), and 1 Hispanic (0.8%)" (Hanek, Olson,
& McAdams, 2011). Denominations included were nondenominational "generally Christian" (42.1%), Catholic (19.5%), Lutheran (10.2%), Baptist (7%), Episcopalian (5.4%), Presbyterian (3.9%), United Church of Christ (3.2%), Methodist (2.4%), African Methodist Episcopal
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