Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right - Couverture rigide

Balmer, Randall

 
9780802879349: Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right
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ISBN 10 : 0802879349 ISBN 13 : 9780802879349
Editeur : William B Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2021

Synopsis

What really gave rise to the Religious Right?

There is a commonly accepted story about the rise of the Religious Right in the United States. It goes like this: with righteous fury, American evangelicals entered the political arena as a unified front to fight the legality of abortion after the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

The problem is this story simply isn't true.

Bad Faith recounts how it was in fact the elimination of tax-exempt status for racially discriminatory Christian institutions, like Bob Jones University, that galvanized evangelicalism into a political force. Only later, when something more palatable was needed to cover for what was becoming an increasingly unpopular position following the civil rights era, was the moral crusade against abortion made the leading issue.

Through exhaustive research and trenchant historical analysis, Randall Balmer exposes the ingrained priorities of the Religious Right movement and uncovers the roots of coded evangelical watchwords like "religious freedom" and "family values"--helping to explain, in part, what this movement has become.

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À propos de l?auteur

Randall Balmer is the John Phillips Professor in Religion at Dartmouth College. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Evangelicalism in America, Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter, and Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America, which is now in its fifth edition and has been made into an award-winning three-part series for PBS.

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Éditeur
William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0802879349
ISBN 13 
9780802879349
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
141
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