Title: Reaganizing Religion: Changing Political And Cultural Norms Among Evangelicals In Ronald Reagan’s America
Abstract:Abstract The 1980s saw the rise of the Religious Right—a movement within American Christianity that yoked together conservative theology with conservative politics, and that encouraged evangelical Chr...Abstract The 1980s saw the rise of the Religious Right—a movement within American Christianity that yoked together conservative theology with conservative politics, and that encouraged evangelical Christians to organize on behalf of a conservative social and political agenda. Evangelical Christians, who had for the fifty years largely eschewed involvement in politics, emerged by the early 1980s as a political force to be reckoned with. Their support for Ronald Reagan helped reshape American politics and culture—and their encounter with Reagan’s America also reshaped, if more subtly, the culture and priorities of the evangelical church.Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-10-22
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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