The Jesus People: Fundamentalism and Changes in Factors Associated with Conservatism.

PROTESTANT fundamentalism; JESUS People; RELIGIOUS thought; CONSERVATISM; SOCIAL psychology

Members of the Jesus movement in Johannesburg, South Africa, were presented with Brown and Lowe's Inventory of Religious Belief and the Wilson-Patterson Conservatism Scale These were completed so as to reflect the respondents' past and present attitudes The respondents were Caucasian, English-speaking young men and women between the ages of 17 and 28 The control group, comprised of members of mainstream church denominations, was matched with the Jesus People for age, home-language, occupation of father, and general intelligence Results indicated that, as a consequence of their conversion, the Jesus People became more Biblically fundamentalistic, and less conservative, less militaristic, less antihedonistic, and less ecclesiastically fundamentalistic There were no changes in their degree of ethnocentrism and realism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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