Faith Based: Religious Neoliberalism and the Politics of Welfare in the United States

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165 index abortion: and Christian libertarianism , 37; and Dominionism, 33; and Religious Right politics, 5–6, 19, 119, 134 Abramoff, Jack, 134 Acton, Lord, 11, 36, 40, 39 Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, 28, 40, 48, 63, 119 Acton Notes, 40 addiction therapy, 89, 91 adultery, 33, 37 African American churches, 123–24, 132 Aid to Families with Dependent Children, 3 Akers, Josh, ix, xii Alcorn, Randy, 41–42, 44 Allbaugh, Joseph, 120 American Enterprise Institute (aei), 20, 115–16, 118, 137 Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (auscs), 133 Ameriquest, 125 Anderson, Perry, 12 antiterrorism, 30 Antle, W. James, 39 Arendt, Hannah, 60 Army Corps of Engineers, 118 Ashcroft, John, 18–19 Association of Gospel Rescue Missions (agrm), 89, 91–93 atheism, 7, 38 Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 6 Baggett, Jerome P., 65 Baker, Richard, 119 Bakker, Jim, 41, 144n8 (chap. 2) Bandow, Doug, 37–38, 40 Barbieux, Kevin, 90 Bastiat, Frederic, 39 Bean, Richard, 10 Beaumont, Justin, 26 Become a Better You (Joel Osteen), 44 Bennett, William, 20–21 Bible: and Christian libertarianism, 40; Christianity Today’s use of, 54–55, 57–58, 60; and Dominionism, 34; gospel rescue missions’ use of, 89–90, 100, 125–26; National Association of Evangelicals’ use of, 52–54; and neoliberalism, xi, 8, 16, 31–32, 46; political uses of, 61–62, 141; and prosperity theology, 41, 43, 44; and Tea Party, 6 Bigelow, Gordon, 14 Black, Conrad, 67 Blanco, Kathleen, 78 Bloomberg, Michael, 104 Bon Jovi, Jon, 78 Bonner, Arthur, 89; Enacted Christianity, 86 Bowery Mission, 104, 106–8 Brenner, Neil, 139 Bright, John, 39 Brooklyn Rescue Mission, 104, 108 Brown, Michael, 114, 119, 129 166 • index Bush, George W., 17, 130, 131; and Kirbyjon Caldwell, 45; and Habitat for Humanity, 78; and Marvin Olasky, 16, 21–22, 28, 39, 86 Bush, Jenna, 45 Bush administration: Compassion Capital Fund, 89; dissent of, from religious neoliberal policies, 132–33, 135; Faith-Based Initiative, vii, 1, 25, 83, 89; and gospel rescue missions, 99, 102–3; Hurricane Katrina response of, 116, 119–21, 129; Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, 23 Caldwell, Kirbyjon, 44–45 Callahan v. Carey, 104 Calvinism, 21, 32, 39, 46, 87; and Dominionism, 35; and Hurricane Katrina responses, 124, 148n3; and prosperity theology, 45; work ethic of, 13 capitalism, nineteenth-century, 13–14 Carter, Jimmy, 65, 69, 74, 78, 127 Carter, Rosalynn, 78, 127 Casperson, Carol, 74 Catholic Charities, 17, 22, 24 cato Institute: attitudes of, to government welfare provision, 62, 115, 118; promotion of neoliberalism by, 11, 20, 24, 40, 137–38 Chang, Ha-Joon, 10 Charitable Choice, 18–19, 50–52, 59, 89, 99, 112 child care, 37 Christian capitalism, 38 Christian Century, 54 Christian Coalition, 19, 134 Christian libertarianism, 31, 36–40, 46 Christian Manifesto (Schaeffer), 33 Christian Reconstructionism, 33–35, 37, 39–40, 46, 57 Christianity Today, 49, 54–60, 62, 145n3 (chap. 3) “Christocrats,” 144n5 Church of England, 26 cil Paint, 79 civil liberties, 135 Cizik, Richard, 134, 148n1 (chap. 7) Clarkson, Frederick, 33 climate change, 134 Clinton, Bill, 18, 78 Clinton, Hillary, 78 Cobden, Richard, 39 Colson, Charles, 20, 59, 134 communism, Evangelical opposition to, 19 Community Action grants, 96 Community Development Block Grants (cdbg), 96, 117 Compassion Capital Fund, 22, 89, 99, 112 “compassionate conservatism,” 16, 39, 86, 120, 144n7 (chap. 1) Connolly, William, 14 “Contract from America,” 5 contracting social services out to fbos, 25, 60 Coukos, Andrea, 13 Daly, Lew, 21, 25, 133 Davis, Mike, 116 Dawson, Joseph, 55–56 Dean, Karl, 110 debt, government, 5 Delay, Tom, 134 Department of Health and Human Services, 122 Department of Homeland Security (dhs), 120 Department of Housing and Urban Development (hud), 96, 104, 110–11, 121 deregulation, 10, 15, 46 DeRocker, Rob, 73 index • 167 Derrida, Jacques, 140 “deserving poor,” 20, 26, 28, 39, 86 devolution of social assistance to nonprofits , 123 Dewalt tools, 79 Diamond, Sarah, 32–33, 35 Dias, Candice, 26 Dilulio, John, 132 Dinkins, David, 104 Dobson, James, 16–17, 19, 134 Dole, Robert, 70 Dollar, Creflo, 40 Dollery, Brian, 10 Dominionism, 31–36, 40, 46, 53 Dow Chemical, 79 drug use programs, 91 DuBois, Joshua, 144n8 (chap. 1) Dumenil, Gérard, 11 economic conservatism, ix, 30–31 Edward, Duke of Wessex, 78 Eldredge v. Koch, 104 Elisha, Omri, 49 Elizabeth II, Queen, 78 Emergency Shelter grants, 96 Enacted Christianity (Bonner), 86 “End times” prophesies, 14 enterprise zones, 117 “entrepreneurial...