Catholics and Politics in the United States

Blandine Chelini-Pont (1, 2, 3)

1 LID2MS - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Droit des Médias et Mutations Sociales
2 GSRL - Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités
3 IDA - Institut des Amériques

The emergence of ultraconservative currents in the United States should not overshadow the vast plurality of political views among American Catholics. Revisiting history can help explain this trend, and particularly the upheaval of the 1970s and the mounting concern about “societal” issues that greatly polarized opinions. The recent election showed a rebalancing of the Catholic vote. This article asks whether there is a compromise to be had between such polarized attitudes.

Keywords: Catholicism; Politics. Religious Right. The US

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences

Blandine Chelini-Pont. Catholics and Politics in the United States. Etudes, 2021, Issue 2. ⟨hal-03936832⟩