|
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General
|
Buy Now
We Gather Together - The Religious Right and the Problem of Interfaith Politics (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R1,235
Discovery Miles 12 350
|
|
|
We Gather Together - The Religious Right and the Problem of Interfaith Politics (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
In the 1970s, mainly in response to Roe v. Wade, evangelicals and
conservative Catholics put aside their longstanding historical
prejudices and theological differences and joined forces to form a
potent political movement that swept across the country-or so
conventional wisdom would have us think. In this provocative book,
Neil J. Young argues that most of this widely accepted story of the
creation of the Religious Right is not true. We Gather Together
examines evangelicals, Catholics, and Mormons (who are usually
ignored in the story) in the early days of the religious right and
paints a much different picture. Tracing the interactions among
these three groups from the 1950s to the present day, Young shows
that the emergence of the Religious Right was not a brilliant
political strategy of compromise and coalition-building hatched on
the eve of a history-altering election. Rather, it was the latest
iteration of a much-longer religious debate that had been going on
for decades in reaction to the building of a mainline Protestant
consensus. This "restructuring" of interfaith relations took place
alongside American political developments of the time, and
evangelicals, Catholics, and Mormons found common cause and pursued
similar ends in debates about abortion, school prayer, the Equal
Rights Amendment, and tax exemptions for religious schools. They
did so together at times but more often separately, and it is the
latter part that historians have all but ignored. While these
social and political issues were the objects of their displeasure,
they weren't its source; far from setting aside their divisions to
create a unified movement, cracks in the alliance shaped the
movement from the very beginning. This provocative book will
reshape our understanding of the most important religious and
political movement of the last 30 years.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
