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The Collective Action Framing of Conservative Christian Groups in Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2016

Steven Kettell
Steven Kettell*
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University of Warwick
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Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Steven Kettell, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, Kirby Corner Road, Coventry, West Midlands CV4 7AL, United Kingdom. E-mail: [email protected].
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Abstract

Conservative Christian groups in Britain have been involved in a number of high profile and controversial policy issues. Scholarly research into the political activities of such groups, however, remains limited. This article addresses this lacuna by exploring the collective action frames deployed by conservative Christian groups in their attempts to influence national level policies and debates. Drawing on elite interviews with group representatives, it argues that these frames have been constructed largely in response to the pressures of secularization, but have, in many respects, become secularized themselves.

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Politics and Religion , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 2017 , pp. 286 - 310
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Copyright © Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association 2016 

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