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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794156403321

Autore

Turek Lauren Frances <1983->

Titolo

To bring the good news to all nations : evangelical influence on human rights and U.S. foreign relations / / Lauren Frances Turek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5017-6819-0

1-5017-4893-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

The United States in the world

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

261.8/70973

Soggetti

Christianity and international relations - United States

Evangelicalism - Political aspects - United States

Evangelicalism - United States - Influence

Christianity and politics - United States

Human rights - Religious aspects - Christianity

United States Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Defining and Defending Rights -- 1. A Global Shift in Missionary Christianity -- 2. The Communications Revolution and Evangelical Internationalism -- 3. Religious Freedom and the New Evangelical Foreign Policy Lobby -- 4. Fighting Religious Persecution behind the Iron Curtain -- 5. Supporting a “Brother in Christ” in Guatemala -- 6. The Challenge of South African Apartheid -- Conclusion: Evangelical Foreign Policy Activism Ascendant -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

When American evangelicals flocked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century to fulfill their Biblical mandate for global evangelism, their experiences abroad led them to engage more deeply in foreign policy activism at home. Lauren Frances Turek tracks these trends and illuminates the complex and significant ways in which religion shaped America's role in the late-Cold War world. In 'To Bring the Good News to All Nations', she examines the



growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assesses the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes, and considers how those same groups promoted the imposition of economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that stifled evangelism.