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Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right (Paperback)
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Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right (Paperback)
Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America
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During the last three decades of the twentieth century, evangelical
leaders and conservative politicians developed a political agenda
that thrust "family values" onto the nation's consciousness.
Ministers, legislators, and laypeople came together to fight
abortion, gay rights, and major feminist objectives. They supported
private Christian schools, home schooling, and a strong military.
Family values leaders like Jerry Falwell, Phyllis Schlafly, Anita
Bryant, and James Dobson became increasingly supportive of the
Republican Party, which accommodated the language of family values
in its platforms and campaigns. The family values agenda created a
bond between evangelicalism and political conservatism. Family
Values and the Rise of the Christian Right chronicles how the
family values agenda became so powerful in American political life
and why it appealed to conservative evangelical Christians.
Conservative evangelicals saw traditional gender norms as crucial
in cultivating morality. They thought these gender norms would
reaffirm the importance of clear lines of authority that the social
revolutions of the 1960s had undermined. In the 1970s and 1980s,
then, evangelicals founded Christian academies and developed
homeschooling curricula that put conservative ideas about gender
and authority front and center. Campaigns against abortion and
feminism coalesced around a belief that God created women as wives
and mothers-a belief that conservative evangelicals thought
feminists and pro-choice advocates threatened. Likewise, Christian
right leaders championed a particular vision of masculinity in
their campaigns against gay rights and nuclear disarmament.
Movements like the Promise Keepers called men to take
responsibility for leading their families. Christian right
political campaigns and pro-family organizations drew on
conservative evangelical beliefs about men, women, children, and
authority. These beliefs-known collectively as family values-became
the most important religious agenda in late twentieth-century
American politics.
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