05275nam 2200805 a 450 991078838560332120211014010031.01-283-89832-20-8122-0659-210.9783/9780812206593(CKB)3170000000046355(OCoLC)808337182(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642203(SSID)ssj0000713593(PQKBManifestationID)11477686(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000713593(PQKBWorkID)10658003(PQKB)10006715(MdBmJHUP)muse17539(DE-B1597)449556(OCoLC)979904891(DE-B1597)9780812206593(Au-PeEL)EBL3441868(CaPaEBR)ebr10642203(CaONFJC)MIL421082(MiAaPQ)EBC3441868(EXLCZ)99317000000004635520111111d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPiety and public funding[electronic resource] evangelicals and the state in modern America /Axel R. Schäfer1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20121 online resource (318 p.)Politics and Culture in Modern AmericaBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-4335-8 0-8122-4411-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-294) and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction: How Evangelicals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State --Chapter 1. The Cold War State and Religious Agencies --Chapter 2. The Evangelical Rediscovery of the State --Chapter 3. Evangelicals, Foreign Policy, and the National Security State --Chapter 4. Evangelicals, Social Policy, and the Welfare State --Chapter 5. Church-State Relations and the Rise of the Evangelical Right --Conclusion: Resurgent Conservatism and the Public Funding of Religious Agencies --Notes --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsHow is it that some conservative groups are viscerally antigovernment even while enjoying the benefits of government funding? In Piety and Public Funding historian Axel R. Schäfer offers a compelling answer to this question by chronicling how, in the first half century since World War II, conservative evangelical groups became increasingly adept at accommodating their hostility to the state with federal support. Though holding to the ideals of church-state separation, evangelicals gradually took advantage of expanded public funding opportunities for religious foreign aid, health care, education, and social welfare. This was especially the case during the Cold War, when groups such as the National Association of Evangelicals were at the forefront of battling communism at home and abroad. It was evident, too, in the Sunbelt, where the military-industrial complex grew exponentially after World War II and where the postwar right would achieve its earliest success. Contrary to evangelicals' own claims, liberal public policies were a boon for, not a threat to, their own institutions and values. The welfare state, forged during the New Deal and renewed by the Great Society, hastened-not hindered-the ascendancy of a conservative political movement that would, in turn, use its resurgence as leverage against the very system that helped create it. By showing that the liberal state's dependence on private and nonprofit social services made it vulnerable to assaults from the right, Piety and Public Funding brings a much needed historical perspective to a hotly debated contemporary issue: the efforts of both Republican and Democratic administrations to channel federal money to "faith-based" organizations. It suggests a major reevaluation of the religious right, which grew to dominate evangelicalism by exploiting institutional ties to the state while simultaneously brandishing a message of free enterprise and moral awakening.Politics and culture in modern America.Faith-based human servicesPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPublic-private sector cooperationPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryChurch and stateUnited StatesHistory20th centuryReligion and politicsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryEvangelicalismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican History.American Studies.Political Science.Public Policy.Religion.Religious Studies.Faith-based human servicesPolitical aspectsHistoryPublic-private sector cooperationPolitical aspectsHistoryChurch and stateHistoryReligion and politicsHistoryEvangelicalismHistory261.70973Schäfer Axel R1519729MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788385603321Piety and public funding3839568UNINA