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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Jerry Falwell"”.
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Radical Religious Rebels: The Rise and Fall of Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority.
… thesis, I intend to illustrate the impact that Jerry Falwell had upon the rise of religious fundamentalism within the United States during the latter part of the 20th century. By elucidating the various factors that led Jerry Falwell from a little-known minister from Lynchburg, Virginia to …
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Comparative Literalisms: An Assessment of Protestant Christian and Sunni Muslim Fundamentalist Scriptural Hermeneutics through the Writings of Falwell, Rushdoony, Qutb, and al-Maqdisi
… literature on religious ‘fundamentalism’: Jerry Falwell, Rousas Rushdoony, Sayyid Qutb, and Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi. I examine what stands for ‘scriptural literalism’ for each of those authors and the way their ‘literalisms’ correlate and contrast with each other. On that basis, my study …
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For God and Country: The Religious Right, the Reagan Administration, and the Cold War
… demonstrates, prominent evangelicals like Jerry Falwell became loyal foot soldiers for the Reagan administration as the 1980s wore on, but gained very little in return for their loyalty. Indeed the Religious Right’s credibility as political commentators suffered as a result of its …
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Compassionate Containment: The Cold War Origins of American Evangelical Humanitarianism
… or Machiavellian opportunists in the vein of Jerry Falwell. The reality is more complex, especially in the early days of the Cold War. This dissertation shows that an organic Cold War mobilization occurred within evangelicalism, with its own press, radio, and film pipeline. Rather than blind …
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Evangelical Dictatorship Driving the Guatemalan Civil War: Reconsidering Ríos Montt, the “Savior of La Nueva Guatemala”
<p>The devastating earthquake that hit Guatemala in 1976 was used as a pretext for American born Protestant evangelicalism—mainly Pentecostalism—to gain entry in the Guatemalan society. A major consequence of the earthquake relief efforts by American evangelicals, is that their meddling also …
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For the Love of God?! Is there a place for Gay Christians between Faith and Fundamentalism?
Drawing from observation, autoethnography, ethnographic research and audio-taped interviews, this thesis explores the complicated and emotionally charged relationship between homosexuality and Christianity. The current culture war being waged in the media between the Religious Right and members of …