Piety and public funding [[electronic resource] ] : evangelicals and the state in modern America / / Axel R. Schäfer

• Autore: Schäfer Axel R
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Disciplina: 261.70973
• Soggetto topico: Faith-based human services - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century; Public-private sector cooperation - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century; Church and state - United States - History - 20th century; Religion and politics - United States - History - 20th century; Evangelicalism - United States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto non controllato: American History; American Studies; Political Science; Public Policy; Religion; Religious Studies
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-294) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: How 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Piety and public funding
• ISBN: 1-283-89832-2; 0-8122-0659-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788385603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Politics and culture in modern America.