Religious Forces in the Modern Political World: Sojourners in the Wilderness: The Christian Right in Comparative Perspective (Paperback)

Corwin E Smidt; R Scott Appleby; Mary E Bendyna
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
 9780847686452
0-8476-8645-0

While the Christian Right has been the subject of a good deal of scholarly analysis, it has not been adequately studied within a comparative context-across time, across different institutional systems,.

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or across different religious communities. In Sojourners in the Wilderness, a host of distinguished scholars examine these dimensions of the Christian Right. The contributors analyze the Christian Right historically-what is its relationship today with earlier manifestations? How have its organizational structures and strategies changed over time?; Sociologically-what are the current opportunities for Christian Right inroads within African-American, Catholic, and Jewish communities?; and politically-what accounts for the affinity between many evangelical Protestants and the Christian Right within the American political context, while such an affinity appears to be lacking in other political contexts?