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Evangelicals and Presidential Politics - From Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump (Hardcover)
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Evangelicals and Presidential Politics - From Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump (Hardcover)
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Using as their starting point a 1976 Newsweek cover story on the
emerging politicization of evangelical Christians, contributors to
this collection engage the scholarly literature on evangelicalism
from a variety of angles to offer new answers to persisting
questions about the movement. The standard historical narrative
describes the period between the 1925 Scopes Trial and the early
1970s as a silent one for evangelicals, and when they did re-engage
in the political arena, it was over abortion. Randall J. Stephens
and Randall Balmer challenge that narrative. Stephens moves the
starting point earlier in the twentieth century, and Balmer
concludes that race, not abortion, initially motivated activists.
In his examination of the relationship between African Americans
and evangelicalism, Dan Wells uses the Newsweek story's sidebar on
black activist and born-again Christian Eldridge Cleaver to
illuminate the former Black Panther's uneasy association with white
evangelicals. Daniel K. Williams, Allison Vander Broek, and J.
Brooks Flippen explore the tie between evangelicals and the
anti-abortion movement as well as the political ramifications of
their anti-abortion stance. The election of 1976 helped to
politicize abortion, which both encouraged a realignment of
alliances and altered evangelicals' expectations for candidates,
developments that continue into the twenty-first century. Also in
1976, Foy Valentine, leader of the Southern Baptist Christian Life
Commission, endeavored to distinguish the South's brand of
Protestant Christianity from the evangelicalism described by
Newsweek. Nevertheless, Southern Baptists quickly became associated
with the evangelicalism of the Religious Right and the South's
shift to the Republican Party. Jeff Frederick discusses
evangelicals' politicization from the 1970s into the twenty-first
century, suggesting that southern religiosity has suffered as
southern evangelicals surrendered their authenticity and adopted a
moral relativism that they criticized in others. R. Ward Holder and
Hannah Dick examine political evangelicalism in the wake of Donald
Trump's election. Holder lays bare the compromises that many
Southern Baptists had to make to justify their support for Trump,
who did not share their religious or moral values. Hannah Dick
focuses on media coverage of Trump's 2016 campaign and contends
that major news outlets misunderstood the relationship between
Trump and evangelicals, and between evangelicals and politics in
general. The result, she suggests, was that the media severely
miscalculated Trump's chances of winning the election.
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