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The End of Empathy - Why White Protestants Stopped Loving Their Neighbors (Hardcover)
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The End of Empathy - Why White Protestants Stopped Loving Their Neighbors (Hardcover)
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When polling data showed that an overwhelming 81% of white
evangelicals had voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential
election, commentators across the political spectrum were left
aghast. Even for a community that had been tracking further and
further right for decades, this support seemed decidedly out of
step. How, after all, could an amoral, twice-divorced businessman
from New York garner such devoted admiration from the most
vociferous of "values voters?" That this same group had, not a
century earlier, rallied national support for such progressive
causes as a federal minimum wage, child labor laws, and civil
rights made the Trump shift even harder to square. In The End of
Empathy, John W. Compton presents a nuanced portrait of the
changing values of evangelical voters over the course of the last
century. To explain the rise of white Protestant social concern in
the latter part of the nineteenth century and its sudden demise at
the end of the twentieth, Compton argues that religious conviction,
by itself, is rarely sufficient to motivate empathetic political
behavior. When believers do act empathetically-championing reforms
that transfer resources or political influence to less privileged
groups within society, for example-it is typically because strong
religious institutions have compelled them to do so. Citizens
throughout the previous century had sought membership in churches
as a means of ensuring upward mobility, but a deterioration of
mainline Protestant authority that started in the 1960s led large
groups of white suburbanites to shift away from the mainline
Protestant churches. There to pick up the slack were larger
evangelical congregations with conservative leaders who discouraged
attempts by the government to promote a more equitable distribution
of wealth and political authority. That shift, Compton argues,
explains the larger revolution in white Protestantism that brought
us to this political moment.
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