Hippies of the Religious Right
Title | Hippies of the Religious Right PDF eBook |
Author | Preston Shires |
Publisher | Baylor University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1932792570 |
This volume demonstrates that the Christian Right has a surprising past. Historical analysis reveals that the countercultural movements and evangelicalism share a common heritage. Shires warns that political operatives in both parties need to heed this fact if they hope to either, in the case of the Republican Party, retain their evangelical constituency, or, in the case of the Democratic Party, recruit new evangelical voters.
Hippies of the Religious Right
Title | Hippies of the Religious Right PDF eBook |
Author | Preston Shires |
Publisher | |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2020-11-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781481314640 |
This volume demonstrates that the Christian Right has a surprising past. Historical analysis reveals that the countercultural movements and evangelicalism share a common heritage. Shires warns that political operatives in both parties need to heed this fact if they hope to either, in the case of the Republican Party, retain their evangelical constituency, or, in the case of the Democratic Party, recruit new evangelical voters.
Blinded by the Right
Title | Blinded by the Right PDF eBook |
Author | David Brock |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2003-02-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1400047285 |
In a powerful and deeply personal memoir David Brock, the original right-wing scandal reporter, chronicles his rise to the pinnacle of the conservative movement and his painful break with it. David Brock pilloried Anita Hill in a bestseller. His reporting in The American Spectator as part of the infamous “Arkansas Project” triggered the course of events that led to the historic impeachment trial of President Clinton. Brock was at the center of the right-wing dirty tricks operation of the Gingrich era—and a true believer—until he could no longer deny that the political force he was advancing was built on little more than lies, hate, and hypocrisy. In Blinded By the Right, Brock, who came out of the closet at the height of his conservative renown, tells his riveting story from the beginning, giving us the first insider’s view of what Hillary Rodham Clinton called “the vast right-wing conspiracy.” Whether dealing with the right-wing press, the richly endowed think tanks, Republican political operatives, or the Paula Jones case, Brock names names from Clarence Thomas on down, uncovers hidden links, and demonstrates how the Republican Right’s zeal for power created the poisonous political climate that culminated in George W. Bush’s election. With a new afterword by the author, Blinded By the Right is a classic political memoir of our times.
Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power
Title | Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power PDF eBook |
Author | Sherry L. Smith |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2012-05-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199855595 |
This book explains how, and why, hippies, Quakers, Black Panthers, movie stars, housewives, and labor unions, to name a few, supported Indian demands for greater political power and separate cultural existence in the modern United States.
Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America
Title | Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America PDF eBook |
Author | Crawford Gribben |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2021-02-23 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0199370249 |
Over the last thirty years, conservative evangelicals have been moving to the Northwest of the United States, where they hope to resist the impact of secular modernity and to survive the breakdown of society that they anticipate. These believers have often given up on the politics of the Christian Right, adopting strategies of hibernation while developing the communities and institutions from which a new America might one day emerge. Their activity coincides with the promotion by prominent survivalist authors of a program of migration to the "American Redoubt," a region encompassing Idaho, Montana, parts of eastern Washington and Oregon, and Wyoming, as a haven in which to endure hostile social change or natural disaster and in which to build a new social order. These migration movements have independent origins, but they overlap in their influences and aspirations, working in tandem to offer a vision of the present in which Christian values must be defended as American society is rebuilt according to biblical law. This book examines the origins, evolution, and cultural reach of this little-noted migration and considers what it might tell us about the future of American evangelicalism. Drawing on Calvinist theology, the social theory of Christian Reconstruction, and libertarian politics, these believers are projecting significant soft power. Their books are promoted by leading mainstream publishers and listed as New York Times bestsellers. Their strategy is gaining momentum, making an impact in local political and economic life, while being repackaged for a wider audience in publications by a broader coalition of conservative commentators and in American mass culture. This survivalist evangelical subculture recognizes that they have lost the culture war - but another kind of conflict is beginning.
God's Forever Family
Title | God's Forever Family PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Eskridge |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2013-07-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0195326458 |
The Jesus People were an unlikely combination of evangelical Christianity and the hippie counterculture. God's Forever Family is the first major examination of this phenomenon in over thirty years.
No Sympathy for the Devil
Title | No Sympathy for the Devil PDF eBook |
Author | David Ware Stowe |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0807834580 |
In this cultural history of evangelical Christianity and popular music, David Stowe demonstrates how mainstream rock of the 1960s and 1970s has influenced conservative evangelical Christianity through the development of Christian pop music. For an earlier