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The Decline, Transformation, and Revival of the Christian Right in the United States.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Hall, Peter Dobkin |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | Democracy in America offers an idealized portrayal of the role of religion in politics in which churches supported religious toleration, kept aloof from politics, and had little influence on public opinion. We would never guess from his account that the country was in the midst of a second Great Awakening of religion ‐ one that, in little more than two decades, transformed it from one in which barely one in ten of its citizens were “churched” to being one of the most religious nations on earth (Finke & Stark 1992). We would never guess that the nation was at the beginning of an epoch of reform in which social and political movements like temperance and abolitionism, both faith-based in their origins, would revolutionize both the methods and motives of political action. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://rsfconference.ucr.edu/papers/Hall2007.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
