LEADER 04948nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910779472803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89826-8 010 $a0-8122-0768-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207682 035 $a(CKB)2550000000707666 035 $a(OCoLC)821736838 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642135 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000726907 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11406953 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000726907 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10683273 035 $a(PQKB)11541391 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19135 035 $a(DE-B1597)449610 035 $a(OCoLC)883790425 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207682 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441800 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642135 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421076 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441800 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000707666 100 $a20120413d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMoral minority$b[electronic resource] $ethe evangelical left in an age of conservatism /$fDavid R. Swartz 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (383 p.) 225 0 $aPolitics and Culture in Modern America 225 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2306-3 311 $a0-8122-4441-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-357) and index. 327 $apt. I. An emerging evangelical left -- pt. II. A broadening coalition -- pt. III. Left behind. 330 $aIn 1973, nearly a decade before the height of the Moral Majority, a group of progressive activists assembled in a Chicago YMCA to strategize about how to move the nation in a more evangelical direction through political action. When they emerged, the Washington Post predicted that the new evangelical left could "shake both political and religious life in America." The following decades proved the Post both right and wrong-evangelical participation in the political sphere was intensifying, but in the end it was the religious right, not the left, that built a viable movement and mobilized electorally. How did the evangelical right gain a moral monopoly and why were evangelical progressives, who had shown such promise, left behind? In Moral Minority, the first comprehensive history of the evangelical left, David R. Swartz sets out to answer these questions, charting the rise, decline, and political legacy of this forgotten movement. Though vibrant in the late nineteenth century, progressive evangelicals were in eclipse following religious controversies of the early twentieth century, only to reemerge in the 1960's and 1970's. They stood for antiwar, civil rights, and anti-consumer principles, even as they stressed doctrinal and sexual fidelity. Politically progressive and theologically conservative, the evangelical left was also remarkably diverse, encompassing groups such as Sojourners, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Evangelicals for Social Action, and the Association for Public Justice. Swartz chronicles the efforts of evangelical progressives who expanded the concept of morality from the personal to the social and showed the way-organizationally and through political activism-to what would become the much larger and more influential evangelical right. By the 1980's, although they had witnessed the election of Jimmy Carter, the nation's first born-again president, progressive evangelicals found themselves in the political wilderness, riven by identity politics and alienated by a skeptical Democratic Party and a hostile religious right. In the twenty-first century, evangelicals of nearly all political and denominational persuasions view social engagement as a fundamental responsibility of the faithful. This most dramatic of transformations is an important legacy of the evangelical left. 410 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America. 606 $aEvangelicalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aChristianity and politics$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aChristian conservatism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y20th century 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 615 0$aEvangelicalism$xHistory 615 0$aChristianity and politics$xHistory 615 0$aChristian conservatism$xHistory 676 $a261.70973/09045 700 $aSwartz$b David R$01490608 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779472803321 996 $aMoral minority$93712073 997 $aUNINA