Jesus and Gin: Evangelicalism, the Roaring Twenties and Today's Culture Wars
- ISBN-10
- 0230110029
- ISBN-13
- 9780230110021
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-08-03
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Author
- Barry Hankins
Description
Jesus and Gin is a rollicking tour of the roaring twenties and the barn- burning preachers who led the temperance movement—the anti-abortion crusade of the Jazz Age. Along the way, we meet a host of colorful characters: a Baptist minister who commits adultery in the White House; media star preachers caught in massive scandals; a presidential election hinging on a religious issue; and fundamentalists and liberals slugging it out in the culture war of the day. The religious roar of that decade was a prologue to the last three decades. With the religious right in disarray today after its long ascendancy, Jesus and Gin is a timely look at a parallel age when preachers held sway and politicians answered to the pulpit.
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