Screen LibraryPiety and public funding : evangelicals and the state in modern america /
Despite the separation of church and state, public aid to religious agencies has traditionally been part of liberal social policy. This book shows that the post-World War II expansion of public funding for evangelical health care, educational, welfare, and foreign relief increasingly benefited the r...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2012] ©2012 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Politics and culture in modern america
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812206593 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812206593.jpg |
| Summary: |
Despite the separation of church and state, public aid to religious agencies has traditionally been part of liberal social policy. This book shows that the post-World War II expansion of public funding for evangelical health care, educational, welfare, and foreign relief increasingly benefited the religious Right and contributed to its resurgence. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9780812206593 |
| Index Number: | HV530 |
| CLC: | D771.27 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: How Evangelicals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State -- Chapter 1. The Cold War State and Religious Agencies -- Chapter 2. The Evangelical Rediscovery of the State -- Chapter 3. Evangelicals, Foreign Policy, and the National Security State -- Chapter 4. Evangelicals, Social Policy, and the Welfare State -- Chapter 5. Church-State Relations and the Rise of the Evangelical Right -- Conclusion: Resurgent Conservatism and the Public Funding of Religious Agencies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |