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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Moral Majority"”.
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Radical Religious Rebels: The Rise and Fall of Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority.
<p>In this 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 …
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Structure and ideology in the mobilization of the New Christian Right: a test of a model
… tactics of its most successful organization, the Moral Majority, toward its target constituency of Evangelical Christians. Resource mobilization theory explain grassroots mobilization by analyzing how social movement organizations (SMOs) use resources to mobilize people to political activity. …
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Hostile Takeover: The New Right Insurgent Movement, Ronald Reagan, and the Republican Party, 1977-1984
… as abortion and school prayer. Along with the Moral Majority, they were instrumental in attaching social and cultural issues to the Republican Party platform. Despite Reagan's support for many of the issues on the New Right's social agenda, this work demonstrates that their relationship was …
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“Stepsons and Stepdaughters”: Chosen Communities, Religion, Faith, and LGBT Liberation
… crisis at the height of the Religious Right and Moral Majority popularity in the late 1970s through the 1980s; and, lastly, the fight for marriage equality with the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 1996 to the United States Supreme Court Decision Obergefell v. Hodges which made …
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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 …
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For God and Country: The Religious Right, the Reagan Administration, and the Cold War
… became very vocal about the need to restore morality to American society and to insure that the United States retained its position as a preeminent military power in the world. This dissertation examines the Religious Right’s activism in matters of American foreign policy from the late 1970s …