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For a Christian America - A History of the Religious Right (Hardcover)
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For a Christian America - A History of the Religious Right (Hardcover)
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Based on more than twenty-five years of research, this objective,
balanced, informative, and, above all, interesting social history
traces the growth of the religious right in America from its humble
grassroots beginnings in the early 1970s to its present status as a
powerful cultural and political force. Perhaps the most interesting
finding uncovered by sociologist Ruth Murray Brown is that the
impetus for the upsurge in Christian right activism of the last
three decades was originally the Equal Rights Amendment of the
1970s, which Christian conservatives found so objectionable that a
new coalition was mobilized against it. After the defeat of the
proposed Amendment, this coalition went on to champion other
conservative causes and to become a complex and sophisticated
lobbying effort with greater visibility and political influence.
Brown describes the formation, and in some cases the decline, of
such organizations as STOP-ERA, the Moral Majority, Concerned Women
for America, Focus on the Family, and the Christian Coalition. She
profiles key players, like Phyllis Schlafly, Jerry Falwell, Pat
Robertson, Tim and Beverly LaHaye, and James Dobson, but also tells
what ordinary citizens did in their own local areas. Separate
chapters are devoted to an analysis of four important issues
motivating the Christian right: their view of ideal family
relationships, opposition to "secular humanism," America's
"Christian heritage," and values in public schools. She concludes
with an overview of what the Christian right has accomplished and
what it may be like in the future.
Both sides of the political spectrum will find this in-depth but
very readable social history to be full of insights into an
important cultural movement.
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