LEADER 05248nam 2200805 a 450 001 9910822348503321 005 20211014010031.0 010 $a1-283-89832-2 010 $a0-8122-0659-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206593 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046355 035 $a(OCoLC)808337182 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642203 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000713593 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11477686 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000713593 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10658003 035 $a(PQKB)10006715 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17539 035 $a(DE-B1597)449556 035 $a(OCoLC)979904891 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206593 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441868 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642203 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421082 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441868 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046355 100 $a20111111d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPiety and public funding $eevangelicals and the state in modern America /$fAxel R. Scha?fer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (318 p.) 225 0 $aPolitics and Culture in Modern America 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4335-8 311 0 $a0-8122-4411-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-294) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: How Evangelicals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State --$tChapter 1. The Cold War State and Religious Agencies --$tChapter 2. The Evangelical Rediscovery of the State --$tChapter 3. Evangelicals, Foreign Policy, and the National Security State --$tChapter 4. Evangelicals, Social Policy, and the Welfare State --$tChapter 5. Church-State Relations and the Rise of the Evangelical Right --$tConclusion: Resurgent Conservatism and the Public Funding of Religious Agencies --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aHow is it that some conservative groups are viscerally antigovernment even while enjoying the benefits of government funding? In Piety and Public Funding historian Axel R. Schäfer offers a compelling answer to this question by chronicling how, in the first half century since World War II, conservative evangelical groups became increasingly adept at accommodating their hostility to the state with federal support. Though holding to the ideals of church-state separation, evangelicals gradually took advantage of expanded public funding opportunities for religious foreign aid, health care, education, and social welfare. This was especially the case during the Cold War, when groups such as the National Association of Evangelicals were at the forefront of battling communism at home and abroad. It was evident, too, in the Sunbelt, where the military-industrial complex grew exponentially after World War II and where the postwar right would achieve its earliest success. Contrary to evangelicals' own claims, liberal public policies were a boon for, not a threat to, their own institutions and values. The welfare state, forged during the New Deal and renewed by the Great Society, hastened-not hindered-the ascendancy of a conservative political movement that would, in turn, use its resurgence as leverage against the very system that helped create it. By showing that the liberal state's dependence on private and nonprofit social services made it vulnerable to assaults from the right, Piety and Public Funding brings a much needed historical perspective to a hotly debated contemporary issue: the efforts of both Republican and Democratic administrations to channel federal money to "faith-based" organizations. It suggests a major reevaluation of the religious right, which grew to dominate evangelicalism by exploiting institutional ties to the state while simultaneously brandishing a message of free enterprise and moral awakening. 410 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America. 606 $aFaith-based human services$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPublic-private sector cooperation$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aChurch and state$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aReligion and politics$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEvangelicalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 615 0$aFaith-based human services$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aPublic-private sector cooperation$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aChurch and state$xHistory 615 0$aReligion and politics$xHistory 615 0$aEvangelicalism$xHistory 676 $a261.70973 700 $aScha?fer$b Axel R$01594532 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822348503321 996 $aPiety and public funding$94023819 997 $aUNINA