POSITION OF PRESIDENT AND RELIGION WITHIN POLITICAL SYSTEM OF USA
Abstract
There were 43 presidents in the history of USA and the analysis of their religious affiliation suggests that a membership in a particular religious denomination has tremendous influence on the American political life. Roman Catholics, for example, comprise a relatively largest denominational community in the US yet despite their 28% share of the religious affiliation only one president ever emerged from that community - John F. Kennedy (1961-1963). By contrast, the three Protestant denominations - Presbyterians, Episcopalians and Unitarians – have 22 of the American presidents yet they comprise 4% of American religious affiliation. This discrepancy itself is sufficient to suggest that a powerful connection exists between religion and politics in the United States.
References
Alexis de Tocqueville, On democracy in Ameica, Izdavačka knjižarnica Zorana Stanojevića, Sremski Karlovci, Novi Sad, 2002,
2006NThe New York Times ALMANAC,The Almanac of Record.
Copyright (c) 2017 Miroljub Jevtić

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.