1980s, Bob Jones Republicans joined with the state GOP establishment in repelling the advance of Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition and Robertson's own insurgent political campaign against then-Vice President George H. W. Bush.
Conversion and Subversion: Religion and the Management of Moral Panics in Singapore
The Elite-sponsored Moral Panic: A Singapore Perspective
anticult movement 33 eral A. Mitchell Palmer's rounding up and imprisonment of suspected Communists in 1919. This approach was soon discredited as extremist. The boom times of the 1920s reduced the fear of communism, and, in the 1930s, ...
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The Transformation of John Foster Dulles: From Prophet of Realism to Priest of Nationalism
These values, such as the rule of law, democracy and human rights, are deeply grounded in a Christian understanding of what it is to be a human being in society.This is a new edition with a substantial new introduction of the book first ...
I Att tämja gudarna jämförs relationen mellan kyrka och stat i Europa respektive i USA samt hur det religiösa ledarskapet fungerar i Kina och Japan.
Built around a set of compelling narratives--George Washington's battle with Quaker pacifists; the fight of Mormons and Catholics for equality with Protestants; Teddy Roosevelt's concept of land versus the Lakota's concept; the creation ...
The book also explores the ways that religion has affected the orientation of partisan politics in the United States.