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Millennial Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares - The Cold War Origins of Political Evangelicalism (Hardcover, New)
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Millennial Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares - The Cold War Origins of Political Evangelicalism (Hardcover, New)
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The Religious Right came to prominence in the early 1980s, but it
was born during the early Cold War. Evangelical leaders like Billy
Graham, driven by a fierce opposition to communism, led
evangelicals out of the political wilderness they'd inhabited since
the Scopes trial and into a much more active engagement with the
important issues of the day. How did the conservative evangelical
culture move into the political mainstream? Angela Lahr seeks to
answer this important question. She shows how evangelicals, who had
felt marginalized by American culture, drew upon their
eschatological belief in the Second Coming of Christ and a
subsequent glorious millennium to find common cause with more
mainstream Americans who also feared a a 'soon-coming end, ' albeit
from nuclear war.
In the early postwar climate of nuclear fear and anticommunism,
the apocalyptic eschatology of premillennial dispensationalism
embraced by many evangelicals meshed very well with the "secular
apocalyptic" mood of a society equally terrified of the Bomb and of
communism. She argues that the development of the bomb, the
creation of the state of Israel, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
combined with evangelical end-times theology to shape conservative
evangelical political identity and to influence secular views.
Millennial beliefs influenced evangelical interpretation of these
events, repeatedly energized evangelical efforts, and helped
evangelicals view themselves and be viewed by others as a vital and
legitimate segment of American culture, even when it raised its
voice in sharp criticism of aspects of that culture. Conservative
Protestants were able to take advantage of this situation to carve
out a new space for theirsubculture within the national arena. The
greater legitimacy that evangelicals gained in the early Cold War
provided the foundation of a power-base in the national political
culture that the religious right would draw on in the late
seventies and early eighties. The result, she demonstrates, was the
alliance of religious and political conservatives that holds power
today.
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