Obamagelicals - How the Right Turned Left (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)

Obamagelicals: How the Right Turned Left demonstrates how rhetorical strategies normalized, marginalized, and/or anaesthetized the traditional views of the white Protestant evangelical voter and gave younger white Protestant evangelicals, whose self-identify as being centrists or modernists, a voice that had otherwise been drowned out by the traditional old guard of the Protestant evangelical religious right. Obamagelicals argues President Obama capitalized on this completely different set of value issues that resonated with white Protestant evangelical centrists and modernists in ways never dreamed possible. Obamagelicals is a unique contribution to the current, interdisciplinary conversation about the role of white Protestant evangelicals in the democratic process and the victorious presidential election. It is unique because it treats Protestant evangelicalism not as a monolith but as a mosaic-comprised of numerous denominations and belief patterns. Through this creation of space on the theological continuum of Protestant evangelicalism, believers draw attention to themselves by creating distinction and attention. This book examines how the shift in theological interpretations of the Scriptures lead to shift in cultural and political issues that went undetected by Republican candidate Senator John McCain but embraced by President Obama. Obamagelicals provides a consistent methodological approach that is easy to understand for those interested in religion and politics. Using data analysis and cross-tabulations, each topic or theme employs simple, easy to understand variables thereby allowing for a cross-comparison. Obamagelicals allows us the opportunity to begin to examine the connections between religiosity and political participation on such key policy issues as the economy, war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and same-sex marriages, within the mosaic of Protestant evangelicalism in the shadow of the 2008 election.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	December 2010
Authors:	Ronald Eric Matthews • Michele Gilbert
Dimensions:	212 x 148 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	145
Edition:	Unabridged edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4438-2550-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > General Books > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches
LSN:	1-4438-2550-6
Barcode:	9781443825504

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