The New Christian Right

Author : Robert C. Liebman,Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0202367487

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The New Christian Right by Robert C. Liebman,Robert Wuthnow Pdf

This book of original essays provides an objective and enlightening analysis of the emergence and changing forms of the New Christian Right. The subject is in itself important in contemporary American life, but in addition The New Christian Right reexamines standard theories of social movements and the relationship between religion and politics in America today. The book presents findings from original research, including surveys, personal interviews with elites, analysis of financial documents, reanalysis of existing data, and analysis of direct-mail solicitations and other primary literature. The New Christian Right is balanced and objective rather than partisan and evaluative. Using non-technical and non-jargonistic language, the authors raise questions concerning the nature of religion, the role of status groups, and contemporary directions in American culture.

Author : Robert C. Liebman,Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : 020230308X

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The New Christian Right by Robert C. Liebman,Robert Wuthnow Pdf

This book of original essays provides an objective and enlightening analysis of the emergence and changing forms of the New Christian Right. The subject is in itself important in contemporary American life, but in addition The New Christian Right reexamines standard theories of social movements and the relationship between religion and politics in America today. The book presents findings from original research, including surveys, personal interviews with elites, analysis of financial documents, reanalysis of existing data, and analysis of direct-mail solicitations and other primary literature. The New Christian Right is balanced and objective rather than partisan and evaluative. Using non-technical and non-jargonistic language, the authors raise questions concerning the nature of religion, the role of status groups, and contemporary directions in American culture.

Author : Steven P. Brown
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780817311780

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Trumping Religion by Steven P. Brown Pdf

The first scholarly treatment of the strategies employed by the New Christian Right in litigating cases regarding religion Trumping Religion provides a detailed analysis of the five major public-interest law firms that have litigated religion cases in the federal courts between 1980 and 2000. Allied with several highly vocal, evangelical ministries, such as those of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robinson, these legal organizations argue that religious expression is a form of protected speech and thereby gain a greater latitude of interpretation in the courts. The long-term agenda of the New Christian Right as illuminated by this study is to shape church-state jurisprudence in a way that permits free course for the Christian gospel. Steven P. Brown presents his research and conclusions from a balanced viewpoint. In filling a distinct void in the literature, this book will be of considerable interest to political scientists, legal scholars, law schools and seminaries, and anyone concerned with the intersection of religion and judicial politics.

Author : Emily S. Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190618957

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This Is Our Message by Emily S. Johnson Pdf

Over the past 50 years, the architects of the religious right have become household names: Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson. They have used their massively influential platforms to build the profiles of evangelical politicians like Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry, and Ted Cruz. Now, a new generation of leaders like Jerry Falwell Jr. and Robert Jeffress enjoys unprecedented access to the Trump White House. What all these leaders share, besides their faith, is their gender. Men dominate the standard narrative of the rise of the religious right. Yet during the 1970s and 1980s nationally prominent evangelical women played essential roles in shaping the priorities of the movement and mobilizing its supporters. In particular, they helped to formulate, articulate, and defend the traditionalist politics of gender and family that in turn made it easy to downplay the importance of their leadership roles. In This Is Our Message, Emily Johnson begins by examining the lives and work of four well-known women-evangelical marriage advice author Marabel Morgan, singer and anti-gay-rights activist Anita Bryant, author and political lobbyist Beverly LaHaye, and televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. The book explores their impact on the rise of the New Christian Right and on the development of the evangelical subculture, which is a key channel for injecting conservative political ideas into purportedly apolitical spaces. Johnson then highlights the ongoing significance of this history through an analysis of Sarah Palin's vice presidential candidacy in 2008 and Michele Bachmann's presidential bid in 2012. These campaigns were made possible by the legacies of an earlier generation of conservative evangelical women who continue to impact our national conversations about gender, family, and sex.

Author : Daniel K. Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199929061

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God's Own Party by Daniel K. Williams Pdf

In God's Own Party, Daniel K. Williams presents the first comprehensive history of the Christian Right, uncovering how evangelicals came to see the Republican Party as the vehicle through which they could reclaim America as a Christian nation.

Author : Seth Dowland
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812291919

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Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right by Seth Dowland Pdf

During the last three decades of the twentieth century, evangelical leaders and conservative politicians developed a political agenda that thrust "family values" onto the nation's consciousness. Ministers, legislators, and laypeople came together to fight abortion, gay rights, and major feminist objectives. They supported private Christian schools, home schooling, and a strong military. Family values leaders like Jerry Falwell, Phyllis Schlafly, Anita Bryant, and James Dobson became increasingly supportive of the Republican Party, which accommodated the language of family values in its platforms and campaigns. The family values agenda created a bond between evangelicalism and political conservatism. Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right chronicles how the family values agenda became so powerful in American political life and why it appealed to conservative evangelical Christians. Conservative evangelicals saw traditional gender norms as crucial in cultivating morality. They thought these gender norms would reaffirm the importance of clear lines of authority that the social revolutions of the 1960s had undermined. In the 1970s and 1980s, then, evangelicals founded Christian academies and developed homeschooling curricula that put conservative ideas about gender and authority front and center. Campaigns against abortion and feminism coalesced around a belief that God created women as wives and mothers—a belief that conservative evangelicals thought feminists and pro-choice advocates threatened. Likewise, Christian right leaders championed a particular vision of masculinity in their campaigns against gay rights and nuclear disarmament. Movements like the Promise Keepers called men to take responsibility for leading their families. Christian right political campaigns and pro-family organizations drew on conservative evangelical beliefs about men, women, children, and authority. These beliefs—known collectively as family values—became the most important religious agenda in late twentieth-century American politics.

Author : Tony Keddie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520385696

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Republican Jesus by Tony Keddie Pdf

The complete guide to debunking right-wing misinterpretations of the Bible—from economics and immigration to gender and sexuality. Jesus loves borders, guns, unborn babies, and economic prosperity and hates homosexuality, taxes, welfare, and universal healthcare—or so say many Republican politicians, pundits, and preachers. Through outrageous misreadings of the New Testament gospels that started almost a century ago, conservative influencers have conjured a version of Jesus that speaks to their fears, desires, and resentments. In Republican Jesus, Tony Keddie explains not only where this right-wing Christ came from and what he stands for but also why this version of Jesus is a fraud. By restoring Republicans’ cherry-picked gospel texts to their original literary and historical contexts, Keddie dismantles the biblical basis for Republican positions on hot-button issues like Big Government, taxation, abortion, immigration, and climate change. At the same time, he introduces readers to an ancient Jesus whose life experiences and ethics were totally unlike those of modern Americans, conservatives and liberals alike.

Author : Lucas Miles
Publisher : BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781424562152

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The Christian Left by Lucas Miles Pdf

The church has been invaded. The Christian Left unveils how liberal thought has entered America's sanctuaries, exchanging the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for the trinity of diversity, acceptance, and social justice. This in-depth look at church history, world politics, and pop culture masterfully exposes the rise and agenda of the Christian Left. Readers will learn how to: Identify and refute the lies of the Christian Left Uncover the meaning of love as Jesus defined it Navigate controversial subjects such as abortion, gender identity, and the doctrine of hell Gain confidence in upholding biblical values Come face-to-face with the person of Jesus, who is neither left nor right but the embodiment of truth and grace Be equipped with a strong understanding of issues facing the church today and empowered to elevate God's truth, justice, and wisdom.

Author : Michael Lienesch
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807844284

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Redeeming America by Michael Lienesch Pdf

A study of Christian conservative religious and political beliefs as aspects of constructing and maintaining a world view. Considering a series of spheres from the self to the family, the economy, the polity and the world, analyzes published writings by a diversity of people adhering to the movement to reveal the overarching structure of the reality they inhabit. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Obery M. Hendricks, Jr.
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807057407

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Christians Against Christianity by Obery M. Hendricks, Jr. Pdf

A timely and galvanizing work that examines how right-wing evangelical Christians have veered from an admirable faith to a pernicious, destructive ideology. Today’s right-wing Evangelical Christianity stands as the very antithesis of the message of Jesus Christ. In his new book, Christians Against Christianity, best-selling author and religious scholar Obery M. Hendricks Jr. challenges right-wing evangelicals on the terrain of their own religious claims, exposing the falsehoods, contradictions, and misuses of the Bible that are embedded in their rabid homophobia, their poorly veiled racism and demonizing of immigrants and Muslims, and their ungodly alliance with big business against the interests of American workers. He scathingly indicts the religious leaders who helped facilitate the rise of the notoriously unchristian Donald Trump, likening them to the “court jesters” and hypocritical priestly sycophants of bygone eras who unquestioningly supported their sovereigns’ every act, no matter how hateful or destructive to those they were supposed to serve. In the wake of the deadly insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol, Christians Against Christianity is a clarion call to stand up to the hypocrisy of the evangelical Right, as well as a guide for Christians to return their faith to the life-affirming message that Jesus brought and died for. What Hendricks offers is a provocative diagnosis, an urgent warning that right-wing evangelicals’ aspirations for Christian nationalist supremacy are a looming threat, not only to Christian decency but to democracy itself. What they offer to America is anything but good news.

Author : Matthew C. Moen
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000060346681

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Christian Right and Congress by Matthew C. Moen Pdf

Author : Andrew R. Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108417709

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The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics by Andrew R. Lewis Pdf

Explains how abortion politics influenced a fundamental shift in conservative Christian politics, teaching conservatives to embrace rights arguments.

Author : Samuel S. Hill,Dennis Edward Owen
Publisher : Nashville : Abingdon
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005393239

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The New Religious-political Right in America by Samuel S. Hill,Dennis Edward Owen Pdf

Author : Erling Jorstad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012207406

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The New Christian Right, 1981-1988 by Erling Jorstad Pdf

This work presents a comprehensive overview of the philosophy and activities of the New Christian Right (NCR), which are characterized by a conspiracy theory - that secular humanists are responsible for the degeneration of the country into pervasive evil - and by a social agenda of activism in the areas of abortion, pornography, homosexual rights, prayer in the schools and creationism.

Author : Michael Lienesch
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781469617237

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Redeeming America by Michael Lienesch Pdf

This balanced and comprehensive study of Christian conservative thinking focuses on the 1980s, when the New Christian Right appeared suddenly as an influential force on the American political scene, only to fade from the spotlight toward the end of the decade. In Redeeming America, Michael Lienesch identifies a cyclical redemptive pattern in the New Christian Right's approach to politics, and he argues that the movement is certain to emerge again. Lienesch explores in detail the writings of a wide range of Christian conservatives, including Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Phyllis Schlafly, and Tim and Beverly LaHaye, in order to illuminate the beliefs and ideas on which the movement is based. Depicting the thinking of these writers as a set of concentric circles beginning with the self and moving outward to include the family, the economy, the polity, and the world, Lienesch finds shared themes as well as contradictions and tensions. He also uncovers a complex but persistent pattern of thought that inspires periodic attempts to redeem America, alternating with more inward-looking intervals of personal piety.