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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788311203321

Titolo

American evangelicals and the 1960s / / edited by Axel R. Schafer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wisconsin ; ; London, England : , : The University of Wisconsin Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-299-29363-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Studies in American Thought and Culture

Disciplina

277.3/0826

Soggetti

Evangelicalism - United States - History - 20th century

Christianity and politics - United States - History - 20th century

Nineteen sixties

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction - Evangelicals and the Sixties:  Revisiting the "Backlash" - Axel R. Schafer""; ""1. Back to the Future - Contemporary American Evangelicalism in Cultural and Historical Perspective - Paul S. Boyer""; ""I.  Talkin 'bout a Revolution?  Evangelicals in 1960's Society and Culture""; ""2. Prairie Fire - The New Evangelicalism and the Politics of Oil, Money, and Moral Geography - Darren Dochuk""; ""3. A Revolutionary Mission - Young Evangelicals and the Language of the Sixties - Eileen Luhr""

""4. The Persistence of Antiliberalism - Evangelicals and the Race Problem - Steven P. Miller""""5. Sex and the Evangelicals - Gender Issues, the Sexual Revolution, and Abortion in the 1960's - Daniel K. Williams""; ""II.  Raging Against Leviathan? - Evangelicals and the Liberal State""; ""6. Attica, Watergate, and the Origin of Evangelical Prison Ministry, 1969-1975 - Kendrick Oliver""; ""7. Making Lemonade from Lemon Evangelicals, the Supreme Court, and the Constitutionality of School Aid - Emma Long""

""8. The Great Society, Evangelicals, and the Public Funding of Religious Agencies - Axel R. Schafer""""9. Tempered by the Fires of War - Vietnam and the Transformation of the Evangelical Worldview - Andrew Preston""; ""III.  Taking It to the Streets?  New Perspectives on Evangelical Mobilization""; ""10. The Evangelical Left and the Move from



Personal to Social Responsibility - David R. Swartz""; ""11. "The Harvest Is Ripe" - American Evangelicals in European Missions, 1950-1980 - Hans Krabbendam""

""12. "A Saga of Sacrilege" - Evangelicals Respond to the Second Vatican Council - Neil J. Young""""Contributors""; ""Index""