Counterculture Conservatives: American Evangelicalism from the Postwar Revival to the New Christian Right

Axel R. Schafer

Counterculture Conservatives: American Evangelicalism from the Postwar Revival to the New Christian Right
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Country
United States
Published
13 December 2011
Pages
264
ISBN
9780299285241

Counterculture Conservatives: American Evangelicalism from the Postwar Revival to the New Christian Right

Axel R. Schafer

In the mid-twentieth century, far more evangelicals supported such liberal causes as peace, social justice, and environmental protection. Only gradually did the conservative evangelical faction win dominance, allying with the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan and, eventually, George W. Bush.

In Countercultural Conservatives Axel Schafer traces the evolution of a diffuse and pluralistic movement into the political force of the New Christian Right. In forging its complex theological and political identity, evangelicalism did not simply reject the ideas of 1960s counterculture, Schafer argues. For all their strict Biblicism and uncompromising morality, evangelicals absorbed and extended key aspects of the countercultural worldview.

Carefully examining evangelicalism’s internal dynamics, fissures, and coalitions, this book offers an intriguing reinterpretation of the most important development in American religion and politics since World War II.

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