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This balanced and comprehensive study of Christian conservative thinking focuses on the 1980s, when the New Christian Right appeared suddenly as an influential force on the American political scene, only to fade from the spotlight toward the end of the decade. In Redeeming America, Michael Lienesch identifies a cyclical redemptive pattern in the New Christian Rights approach to politics, and he argues that the movement is certain to emerge again.Lienesch explores in detail the writings of a wide range of Christian conservatives, including Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Phyllis Schlafly, and Tim and Beverly LaHaye, in order to illuminate the beliefs and ideas on which the movement is based. Depicting the thinking of these writers as a set of concentric circles beginning with the self and moving outward to include the family, the economy, the polity, and the world, Lienesch finds shared themes as well as contradictions and tensions. He also uncovers a complex but persistent pattern of thought that inspires periodic attempts to redeem America, alternating with more inward-looking intervals of personal piety.
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Redeeming America
1993 The University of North Carolina Press
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Portions of chapter 2 appeared in somewhat different form as Anxious Patriarchs: Authority and the Meaning of Masculinity in Christian Conservative Social Thought, in The Journal of American Culture 13 (1990): 4750, and asTrain Up a Child: Conceptions of Child-Rearing in Christian Conservative Social Thought, in Comparative Social Research 13 (1991): 20324. Reprinted with permission.
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Lienesch, Michael, 1948
Redeeming America : piety and politics in the New Christian Right
/ by Michael Lienesch.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8078-2089-X (alk. paper).
ISBN 0-8078-4428-4 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. EvangelicalismUnited StatesHistory20th century. 2. FundamentalismHistory. 3. ConservatismUnited StatesHistory20th century. 4. ConservatismReligious aspectsChristianity. 5. United StatesPolitics and government19771981. 6. United StatesPolitics and government19811989. 7. United StatesPolitics and government1989- 8. United StatesChurch history20th century. I. Title. II. Title: New Christian Right.
BR1642.U5L54 1993
261.8dc20
Redeeming America : piety and politics in the New Christian Right
/ by Michael Lienesch.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8078-2089-X (alk. paper).
ISBN 0-8078-4428-4 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. EvangelicalismUnited StatesHistory20th century. 2. FundamentalismHistory. 3. ConservatismUnited StatesHistory20th century. 4. ConservatismReligious aspectsChristianity. 5. United StatesPolitics and government19771981. 6. United StatesPolitics and government19811989. 7. United StatesPolitics and government1989- 8. United StatesChurch history20th century. I. Title. II. Title: New Christian Right.
BR1642.U5L54 1993
261.8dc20
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Michael Lienesch, professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is author of New Order of the Ages: Time, the Constitution, and the Making of Modern American Political Thought and coeditor of Ratifying the Constitution.
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TO ANN
Contents
Acknowledgments
Since I started writing this book almost ten years ago, some people have expressed surprise that I would want to write it at all. As I am neither an active opponent nor a sympathetic supporter of the New Christian Right, my agenda has apparently seemed suspicious to them. Among academics in particular, the idea that I would want to take seriously such writers as Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertsonlet alone Jim and Tammy Bakkerand apply to them the same standards of scholarship that are usually reserved for more significant sources was at times a cause of amusement or concern. So it has been particularly important to me to receive support from the institutions and individuals that I wish to thank now.
At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I have experienced an encouraging and friendly environment governed by the highest scholarly standards. For this, I wish to thank my colleagues in the Department of Political Science, who have been supportive of this project from start to finish, and to thank especially Thad Beyle, Jack Donnelly, Stephen Leonard, David Lowery, Duncan MacRae, Eric Mlyn, Richard Richardson, and Joseph Rees for their advice and assistance. I also wish to thank those friends in other departments and fields who have been interested and involved, particularly Craig Calhoun, Peter Kaufman, Townsend Luding-ton, Donald Mathews, Warren Nord, Anthony Oberschall, Anne Stanford, Stephen Stanley, and Grant Wacker. While writing this book, I was fortunate to be a fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, a place for reflection in the midst of a busy academic life, and I am grateful to Ruel Tyson and Helen Wilson of the institute for their hospitality there. For additional financial support, I wish to thank the University Research Council.
Others at the University of North Carolina deserve my thanks as well. The professionals who staff the university libraries and reading rooms have helped me repeatedly to locate what were often obscure sources. I want to thank Michelle Neal in particular for her help during the early stages of this project. Two research assistants have contributed above and beyond the call of duty, and I am grateful to Patrick Rivers and Hugh Singerline for making this a much better book. Although I cannot name them all, the students in the classes I have taught on this topic deserve my thanks, and I would like to single out Harry Bleattler, Rachel Orr, and Michael Tager for special thanks.
Beyond the boundaries of my own university, others have offered advice and encouragement, and I am grateful to them. They include Robert Booth Fowler, Michael Gillespie, James Guth, Jeffrey Hadden, Robert Hols-worth, George Marsden, Joel Schwartz, Kenneth Thompson, and Robert Wuthnow.
To those I have forgottenand I am sure there are someI apologize and extend my gratitude, and to those who have helped in ways that I do not knowand I am sure there are manyI thank them as sincerely as the rest.
I am grateful to Lewis Bateman, Paul Betz, and Kate Torrey of the University of North Carolina Press for having confidence that this could be a book, and to all of those at the Press who helped to make it one.
Most of all I thank my family, who are a source of redemption for me: Ann, to whom I dedicate this book, and Nicholas and Elizabeth, to whose college funds I dedicate its profits.
Redeeming America
Introduction
In the United States, conservative religious movements lare the meteors of our political atmosphere. Awesome land unpredictable, they streak across our skies in a blaze of right-wing frenzy, only to fall to earth cold and exhausted, consumed by their own passionate heat. This, at least, is the conventional view, called up repeatedly during the decade of the 1980s to explain the phenomenon of Christian conservatism, what came to be called, more or less interchangeably, the New Christian Right, the New Religious Right, the New Religious Political Right, or, more simply, the religious right.
To most observers, the New Christian Right did seem to appear suddenly, and with stunning force. Although Jimmy Carter, a born-again evangelical, had been elected president in 1976 with the strong support of religious conservatives, the larger meaning of the movement did not become evident until late in his term when many of these same supporters began to turn against him. In late 1979, as election year approached, George Gallup released findings from a national poll showing that as many as one out of every three adults questioned had experienced a religious conversion, that almost half believed that the Bible was inerrant, and that more than 80 percent thought Jesus Christ was divine.
Yet almost as soon as the phenomenon appeared on the scene, it began to seem less significant. Scholars reviewing Gallups findings discovered that his many millions of religious conservatives were a diverse and divided group, and that religious conservatism was not always synonymous with political conservatism.
Moreover, over the course of the decade, the movement seemed to lose strength. While general population polls continued to show support for conservative religious values, more sophisticated studies of religious conservatives themselves found that when asked about groups such as the Moral Majority, most were opposed, indifferent, or had never heard of them.
Nevertheless, some factors suggest that the reports of the demise of the movement have been very much exaggerated. Indeed, at least a few signs seem to indicate that religious conservatives, while less prominent politically than in their heyday in the early 1980s, are at the end of the decade every bit as powerful. Although appearing to be less active in national politics, they have in fact continued to play a role in shaping public policy, acting through a labyrinth of lobbying groups and political action committees.
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