{"product_id":"bad-faith-race-and-the-rise-of-the-religious-right-hardcover","title":"Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRandall Balmer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA surprising and disturbing origin story\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a commonly accepted story about the rise of the Religious Right in the United States. It goes like this: with righteous fury, American evangelicals entered the political arena as a unified front to fight the legality of abortion after the Supreme Court's 1973 \u003ci\u003eRoe v. Wade\u003c\/i\u003e decision. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe problem is this story simply isn't true. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLargely ambivalent about abortion until the late 1970s, evangelical leaders were first mobilized not by \u003ci\u003eRoe v. Wade \u003c\/i\u003ebut by \u003ci\u003eGreen v. Connally\u003c\/i\u003e, a lesser-known court decision in 1971 that threatened the tax-exempt status of racially discriminatory institutions--of which there were several in the world of Christian education at the time. When the most notorious of these schools, Bob Jones University, had its tax-exempt status revoked in 1976, evangelicalism was galvanized as a political force and brought into the fold of the Republican Party. Only later, when a more palatable issue was needed to cover for what was becoming an increasingly unpopular position following the civil rights era, was the moral crusade against abortion made the central issue of the movement now known as the Religious Right. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this greatly expanded argument from his 2014 \u003ci\u003ePolitico \u003c\/i\u003earticle \"The Real Origins of the Religious Right,\" Randall Balmer guides the reader along the convoluted historical trajectory that began with American evangelicalism as a progressive force opposed to slavery, then later an isolated apolitical movement in the mid-twentieth century, all the way through the 2016 election in which 81 percent of white evangelicals coalesced around Donald Trump for president. The pivotal point, Balmer shows, was the period in the late 1970s when American evangelicals turned against Jimmy Carter--despite his being one of their own, a professed \"born-again\" Christian--in favor of the Republican Party, which found it could win their loyalty through the espousal of a single issue. With the implications of this alliance still unfolding, Balmer's account uncovers the roots of evangelical watchwords like \"religious freedom\" and \"family values\" while getting to the truth of how this movement began--explaining, in part, what it has become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRandall Balmer\u003c\/b\u003e is the John Phillips Professor in Religion at Dartmouth College. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including \u003ci\u003eEvangelicalism in America, Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America\u003c\/i\u003e, which is now in its fifth edition and has been made into an award-winning three-part series for PBS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 141\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 7.09 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 10, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (2021)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767954014496,"sku":"9780802879349","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6d17a5384ef23b4e656f361e5383ea4c.webp?v=1780321433","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/bad-faith-race-and-the-rise-of-the-religious-right-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}