I tend to call Evangelical Protestants progressives. they want progress of society toward their conservative imaginations, whereas a conservative would be the more mainstream which are resistant to change. progressive is opposed to conservative on the spectrum that judges openness and desire for change. the direction of that change might be toward something some might think of as regressive, but regress is just progress toward or against one set of ends or goals. On Nov 30, 2005, at 5:20 PM, Charles Ess wrote:
Just to throw in my 2 cents...
at least in the history of media such as movies and then radio, it was the theologically conservative (in the sense of promoting a strongly traditional / Orthodox view) Evangelical protestants who jumped the quickest and with the most enthusiasm into the then-new technologies - alongside, certainly, the more marginalized / liberal / alternative religious communities. They were eventually followed by theologically conservative, but more "mainstream" (to use Martin Marty's definitions) Protestants and Roman Catholics. The same pattern appears to have occurred vis-à-vis the Internet and its various modes of CMC. So, while I shudder at the thought (really) of disagreeing with Jeremy on these sorts of matters, I'd want to know more about what counts as "progressive" (rather than, as Mary Virnoche suggested, "innovative") - so that theologically (very) conservative Evangelicals might count as progressive in the sense he has in mind.
cheers, cX
actually, yes, it is a given. the adoption of new technologies falls into the progressive and not the conservative end of one of the politico-normative axes. another axis is liberal-authoritarian. another
at this point blogging is being widely adopted by technologically semi-progressive political conservatives.
technologically progressive political liberals were first, but not quite as much weight can be given to them now... they're not the only ones in the game.
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