Countercultural conservatives :
Schäfer, Axel R.
Countercultural conservatives : American evangelicalism from the postwar revival to the New Christian Right / Axel R. Schäfer. - Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) : illustrations. - Studies in American thought and culture . - Studies in American thought and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In the mid-twentieth century, far more evangelicals supported such "liberal" causes as peace, social justice, and environmental protection. Only gradually did the conservative evangelical faction win dominance, allying with the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan and, eventually, George W. Bush. In Countercultural Conservatives Axel Schäfer traces the evolution of a diffuse and pluralistic movement into the political force of the New Christian Right. In forging its complex theological and political identity, evangelicalism did not simply reject the ideas of 1960s counterculture, Schäfer argues. For all their strict Biblicism and uncompromising morality, evangelicals absorbed and extended key aspects of the countercultural worldview. Carefully examining evangelicalism's internal dynamics, fissures, and coalitions, this book offers an intriguing reinterpretation of the most important development in American religion and politics since World War II.
9780299285234 0299285235 1283486202 9781283486200
9786613486202
348620 MIL
1900 - 1999
Evangelicalism--History--United States--20th century.
Christian conservatism--History--United States--20th century.
Christianity and politics--History--United States--20th century.
Christian conservatism--History--United States--20th century.
RELIGION--Christianity--History.
Christian conservatism.
Christianity and politics.
Evangelicalism.
United States.
Electronic books.
History
BR1642.U5 / S33 2011eb
277.308/2
Countercultural conservatives : American evangelicalism from the postwar revival to the New Christian Right / Axel R. Schäfer. - Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) : illustrations. - Studies in American thought and culture . - Studies in American thought and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In the mid-twentieth century, far more evangelicals supported such "liberal" causes as peace, social justice, and environmental protection. Only gradually did the conservative evangelical faction win dominance, allying with the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan and, eventually, George W. Bush. In Countercultural Conservatives Axel Schäfer traces the evolution of a diffuse and pluralistic movement into the political force of the New Christian Right. In forging its complex theological and political identity, evangelicalism did not simply reject the ideas of 1960s counterculture, Schäfer argues. For all their strict Biblicism and uncompromising morality, evangelicals absorbed and extended key aspects of the countercultural worldview. Carefully examining evangelicalism's internal dynamics, fissures, and coalitions, this book offers an intriguing reinterpretation of the most important development in American religion and politics since World War II.
9780299285234 0299285235 1283486202 9781283486200
9786613486202
348620 MIL
1900 - 1999
Evangelicalism--History--United States--20th century.
Christian conservatism--History--United States--20th century.
Christianity and politics--History--United States--20th century.
Christian conservatism--History--United States--20th century.
RELIGION--Christianity--History.
Christian conservatism.
Christianity and politics.
Evangelicalism.
United States.
Electronic books.
History
BR1642.U5 / S33 2011eb
277.308/2
