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Saving History - How White Evangelicals Tour the Nation's Capital and Redeem a Christian America (Hardcover)
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Saving History - How White Evangelicals Tour the Nation's Capital and Redeem a Christian America (Hardcover)
Series: Where Religion Lives
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Millions of tourists visit Washington, D.C., every year, but for
some the experience is about much more than sightseeing. Lauren R.
Kerby's lively, engaging book takes readers onto tour buses and
explores the world of Christian heritage tourism. These expeditions
visit the same attractions as their secular counterparts-Capitol
Hill, the Washington Monument, the war memorials, and much more-but
the white evangelicals who flock to the tours are searching for
evidence that America was founded as a Christian nation. The tours
preach a historical jeremiad that resonates far beyond Washington.
White evangelicals across the United States tell stories of the
nation's Christian origins, its subsequent fall into moral and
spiritual corruption, and its need for repentance and return to
founding principles. This vision of American history, Kerby finds,
is white evangelicals' most powerful political resource-it allows
them to shapeshift between the roles of faithful patriots and
persecuted outsiders. In an era when white evangelicals' political
commitments baffle many observers, this book offers a key for
understanding how they continually reimagine the American story and
their own place in it.
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