FUNDAMENTALISM VS. SOCIAL ACTIVISM: WHERE DOES THE MORAL MAJORITY FIT IN?
Sharon Georgianna Seattle Pacific University Before the advent of the Moral Majority, fundamentalists were noted for their absence from the socio-political arena. Though there were sporadic attempts, no fundamentalist social action organization had been successful until the Moral Majority came on the scene in 1979. Are Moral Majoritarians bothered by their recent involvement in social activism? What kinds of social action behaviors are they more likely to engage in? A questionnaire was sent to a random sample of Moral Majoritarians in a Midwestern Chapter to shed light on social action involvement. It found that Moral Majoritarians prefer safe, democratic social behaviors to more radical actions, and that evangelism still takes priority over social activism. JIS II 1990: 175-190 CHURCH AND STATE IN NIGERIA: THE SHAPING OF A NATION’S DESTINY Sunday A. Aigbe Center for African Culture & Research International This article examines the Christian factor as it relates to the socio-political
