White evangelical racism the politics of morality in America

"The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politic...

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1. Verfasser: Butler, Anthea D. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2021
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Zusammenfassung:"The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power"--
Beschreibung:A Ferris and Ferris book
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Beschreibung:164 Seiten
20 cm
ISBN:9781469661179
978-1-4696-6117-9