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A Research On Mainline Religious Factors In American Contemporary Presidential Election

Posted on:2011-05-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X T CengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360332956044Subject:World History
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Since the American constitution was made in 1787, US's presidential election has been a very important content in US political life. It starts once again and deducts the American characteristic democracy in a disorderly way, having a tremendous influence to US's internal affairs and the diplomacy. The US explicitly stipulates the separation of the religion and the politics in its constitution, but the religion's influence to the American politics can be seen everywhere. Of the contemporary American presidential election, the mainline religion is playing the very positive role. The same as the political parties, the special interest groups, the mass media, the social ideological trend and so on, the mainline religion is also one of the important factors that affects the American presidential election.The US is the superpower in the world nowadays. At the same time, it is also the country that is deeply influenced by the religion. Today, the science and technology is highly developed, the religion is still strongly influencing the Americans. The American religion's huge constitution, active organization and widespread influence have attracted the world's attention. Since the 1950s, the American original religion pattern has been gradually substituted by a new religious pattern, namely the mainstream religion pattern "Protestant-Catholic-Jew". The American mainline religion gradually concerned and participated politics. the typical cases of the contemporary American mainstream religion's influence to the presidential election was in 1960 and in 2004. The religious groups, the voters' religious belief and the religious belief of presidential candidates are the great factors.Conducting the research to the American contemporary presidential election's mainline religious factors has provided the very good angle of view to observe the relation between the American religion and the politics and perfect the content of the election politics research, which has the vital academic significance In addition, in view of the importance of the relation with the US in the China's future development, through further researching the American presidential election, we may discover some factors that possibly affect the relation with the US but have not been received our attention, then we can correctly treat and solve the American presidential election's influence to the relation between the China and the US, specially the negative influence. Also we can better judge the US's foreign policies' future trend, and comprehensively and prospectively formulate the policies to the US, thus we can make use of the favorable condition and avoid the unfavorable condition and build an atmosphere that is advantageous to maintain the good relation between the China and the US. It also certainly has the vital practical significance to maintain national security, enhance national strength, expanse foreign relation, and realize national unification and so on.Until now, the domestic and foreign historians have made many contributions to the related research. However, compares with the US's research, our country's related research appears very weak, particularly having not conducted the special research to the mainline religion in the American presidential election and there is no publicized special work. The author, basing on the existing research results, through reviewing the mainline religion factors in the contemporary American presidential election, attempts to further reveal the religion's influence to the presidential election. Therefore, the article is divided into four parts to carry on the system discussion to the aspect.The article's first part, namely the first chapter "Introduction", mainly introduces this article's selected topic significance, domestic and foreign research's present situation, and existing question and solution and so on.The article's second part is this article's main body, which is divided into three chapters, the main composition as follows:The second chapter, namely "the relation between politics and religion that affecting the American Presidential election", this part constitutes by two small sections. First, it discusses the US's presidential election, explains the primary coverage of the American presidential election, and analyzes the primary factors that affect the American presidential election:political parties, special interest groups, mass media and religion and so on. Next, it outlines the relation between the American politics and the religion, from these aspects to analyze, including the characteristics of the relation between the American politics and the religion, the historical inevitability that Americans establish the separation of the politics and the church, and the principle of the separation of the politics and the church under the stipulation of the American constitution.The third chapter, namely "the mainline religion that affecting the American presidential election", is composed of two sections. The first section describes the formation of the American mainline religion, mainly discussing the stage that the Protestant is in the absolute advantage position; the formation stage of the mainline religion of Protestant, Catholic, Jew "Trinity". The second section for the American mainline religion's political participation, the key elaboration mainline religion participates in US's Congress legislating, the foreign policy formulation and the social ethics moral reconstruction. The second section describes the American mainline religion's political participation, mainly elaborating the mainline religions' participation in US's Congress legislation, the foreign policy formulation and the reconstruction of the social ethics moral.The fourth chapter, namely "Influence of Contemporary US MainlineReligion to Presidential election", on the basis of the discussion of the above chapters, mainly analyzes the contemporary American mainline religion's influence to the presidential election, which mainly is composed of two sections. The first section describes the typical cases of the contemporary American mainline religious influence to the presidential election, mainly analyzes the mainline religious factors of the American presidential election in 1960 and in 2004. In the second section, it mainly analyzes three great factors of the contemporary American mainline religious influence to the presidential election, namely the religious groups, the voters' religious belief, the religious belief of presidential candidates.The article's third part, namely the fifth chapter "Conclusion", mainly through the analysis and research to the mainline religion factors that affect the contemporary American presidential election, summarizes several experiences and lessons, takes this as a warning, forecasts the prospect of the American mainline religion's influence to the presidential election, and pertinently proposes some individual thinking.
Keywords/Search Tags:the united states of America, contemporary, presidential election, mainstream religion
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