Bad faith : race and the rise of the religious right

Bad faith : race and the rise of the religious right / Randall Balmer.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Balmer, Randall Herbert (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2021.
Subjects:
Religious right > United States > History.
Evangelicalism > Political aspects > United States > History.
Abortion > Political aspects > United States > History.
Racism > United States > Religious aspects.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The Emergence of Progressive Evangelicalism
  • The Diversion of Dispensationalism
  • The Making of the Evangelical Subculture
  • The Chicago Declaration and Jimmy Carter
  • The Abortion Myth
  • What Really Happened
  • What about Abortion?
  • The 1980 Presidential Election
  • Why the Abortion Myth Matters.

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