Support for the American Left, 1920-1924: The Opiate Thesis Reconsidered.
This study analyzed voting data for leftist candidates in the 1920 and 1924 presidential elections, as well as data on the location of I.W.W. branches in 1924, to assess the Marxist thesis that religion is an "opium of the people." We used the 48 states as the units of analysis and found solid negat...
| Publicado en: | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 62 - 76 |
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