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- American Evangelicals and the 1960s
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
In the late 1970s, the New Christian Right emerged as a formidable political force, boldly announcing itself as a unified movement representing the views of a "moral majority." But that movement did not spring fully formed from its predecessors. American Evangelicals and the 1960s refutes the thesis that evangelical politics were a purely inflammatory backlash against the cultural and political upheaval of the decade.
Bringing together fresh research and innovative interpretations, this book demonstrates that evangelicals actually participated in broader American developments during "the long 1960s," that the evangelical constituency was more diverse than often noted, and that the notion of right-wing evangelical politics as a backlash was a later creation serving the interests of both Republican-conservative alliances and their critics. Evangelicalism's involvement with—rather than its reaction against—the main social movements, public policy initiatives, and cultural transformations of the 1960s proved significant in its 1970s political ascendance. Twelve essays that range thematically from the oil industry to prison ministry and from American counterculture to the Second Vatican Council depict modern evangelicalism both as a religious movement with its own internal dynamics and as one fully integrated into general American history.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-2
- I. Talkin 'bout a Revolution? Evangelicals in 1960s Society and Culture
- II. Raging Against Leviathan? - Evangelicals and the Liberal State
- III. Taking It to the Streets? New Perspectives on Evangelical Mobilization
- Contributors
- pp. 281-284
- Further Reading
- pp. 304-305
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299293635
Related ISBN(s)
9780299293642
MARC Record
OCLC
867740667
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2013-10-21
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013