Moral Minority : : The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism /

Moral Minority : : The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism / / David R. Swartz.

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In 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 evangelica...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
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Swartz, David R.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
©2013
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Politics and Culture in Modern America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 25 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • PART I. An Emerging Evangelical Left
  • CHAPTER 1. Carl Henry and Neo- Evangelical Social Engagement
  • CHAPTER 2. John Alexander and Racial Justice
  • CHAPTER 3. Jim Wallis and Vietnam
  • CHAPTER 4. Mark Hatfield and Electoral Politics
  • CHAPTER 5. Sharon Gallagher and the Politics of Spiritual Community
  • PART II. A Broadening Coalition
  • CHAPTER 6. Samuel Escobar and the Global Reflex
  • CHAPTER 7. Richard Mouw and the Reforming of Evangelical Politics
  • CHAPTER 8. Ron Sider and the Politics of Simple Living
  • CHAPTER 9. The Chicago Declaration and a United Progressive Front
  • PART III. LEFT BEHIND
  • CHAPTER 10. Identity Politics and a Fragmenting Coalition
  • CHAPTER 11. The Limits of Electoral Politics
  • CHAPTER 12. Sojourning
  • Epilogue
  • APPENDIX: THE CHICAGO DECLARATION OF EVANGELICAL SOCIAL CONCERN
  • ARCHIVES
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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