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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Christian right"”.
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The Christian Right and US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century
The thesis discusses the role of the Christian Right in the US foreign policy decision making process. The research revealed that the Christian Right has long been fascinated with some international issues in general and US foreign policy in particular. The Christian Right’s interest in …
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Structure and ideology in the mobilization of the New Christian Right: a test of a model
The mobilization of the New Christian Right (NCR) has been a topic of scholarly interest and research since the early 1980s. This research attempts to explain this phenomenon by analyzing the mobilizing strategies and tactics of its most successful organization, the Moral Majority, toward its …
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Romancing the new evangelical woman.
This project examines women's Christian historical fiction romance novels in order to understand the evangelical identity and the rise of the Christian Right. The chapters are interlocking essays that could be published as separate articles. Chapter One identifies the emergence of the marketplace …
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National survey of school board members' perceived religious and political leanings and their attitudes on selected education issues
… education issues in which members of the Christian Right are active. The research questions for this study were, (1) Do school board members perceive themselves as religiously conservative or liberal? (2) Do school board members perceive themselves as politically conservative or liberal? …
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Silent, no more: The 1974 Kanawha County textbook controversy and the rise of conservatism in America
… with the campaigns of George Wallace, the New Right, and the New Christian Right. The thesis shows how the Kanawha County protestors' words and actions paralleled that of aforementioned conservative movements, creating, in the end, one of the first manifestations of a single-issue conservative …
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God's army : religious conservatives at the 1992 Republican National Convention.
… the Republican Party. At that convention, the Christian Right demonstrated its power within the party by influencing the platform committee and the tenor of the convention. The convention demonstrated that religious conservatives were no longer outsiders in the party, but were instead important …
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Man Behind The Curtain: The 2004 Election from a Historical Perspective
… 2000 election. Second, it traces the rise of the Christian Right. It then delves into the Cold War and the War on Terror as a continuation of the former. Finally, the study culminates with an examination of the 2004 presidential election that draws all of these themes together to illustrate the …
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For God and Country: The Religious Right, the Reagan Administration, and the Cold War
… involved in American politics. Dubbed the New Christian Right by some, the Religious Right or the Christian Right by others, these figures immediately became very vocal about the need to restore morality to American society and to insure that the United States retained its position as a …
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Boundaries and traditions: defining American evangelicalism from 1965-1980
… This project is less about what led up to the Christian Right as a political power and more about a rhetorical issue of definition and the historical claims that articulated how evangelicals envisioned their role in America. Ideal models of evangelical identity manifested in three primary …
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The greatest evangelizing opportunity of the century: the Southern Baptist Convention and Latino immigration politics, 1970-1994
… proselytization efforts. Divisions within the Christian Right, however, and the intensifying anxieties of SBC members over their place in society in the 1980s and 1990s, complicated white evangelicals’ attitudes toward Latino immigration. Tensions became particularly acute in California, where …
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God’s Chosen Candidate Pulpit Freedom Sunday and the Reshaping of Evangelical Political Mobilization, Pulpit Politicking, and Church-State Relations
… life, from the colonial period through the Civil Rights Movement. Yet PFS is distinctive in that it emerged within a theologically conservative evangelicalism that, for much of the twentieth century, was hesitant to mix the sacred with the political. The rise of the Religious Right, growing …