Piety and Public Funding : : Evangelicals and the State in Modern America / / Axel R. Schäfer.
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, conservati...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Culture in Modern America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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