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



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Autore: Schäfer Axel R Visualizza persona
Titolo: Piety and public funding [[electronic resource] ] : evangelicals and the state in modern America / / Axel R. Schäfer Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-89832-2
0-8122-0659-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788385603321
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Serie: Politics and culture in modern America.