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Swiming Upstream, Boston U. Prof. Berger project looks at `evangelical intelligentsia’
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jwsheffield@satx.rr.com
Newsgroups: alt.religion.christian.episcopal
From: "jwsheffi...@satx.rr.com"
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 15:29:31 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sun, May 18 2008 6:29 pm
Subject: Swiming Upstream, Boston U. Prof. Berger project looks at `evangelical intelligentsia’
For decades, Boston University sociologist Peter Berger says, American
intellectuals have looked down on evangelicals.
Educated people have the notion that evangelicals are "barefoot people
of Tobacco Road who, I don't know, sleep with their sisters or
something," Berger says.
It's time that attitude changed, he says.
"That was probably never correct, but it's totally false now and I
think the image should be corrected," Berger said in a recent
interview.
Now, his university's Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs
is leading a two-year project that explores an "evangelical
intelligentsia" which Berger says is growing and needs to be better
understood, given the large numbers of evangelicals and their
influence.
"It's not good if a prejudiced view of this community prevails in the
elite circles of society," said Berger, a self-described liberal
Lutheran. "It's bad for democracy and it's wrong."
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