religious right

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/8/2022
  

  How the Evangelical Movement Embraced the Abortion Issue

  Kristin Kobes Du Mez discusses how Evangelical Christians came to drive the abortion debate in the US in the context of a backlash against feminism and a growing infrastructure of conservative voter mobilization.

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  3/28/2022
  

  Hawley's Attacks on KBJ Part of Long History of Politicizing Child Abuse Panics

  Historian Paul Renfro explains the rising fears of child abduction in the 1980s and the way those fears have been used politically. 

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  1/24/2022
  

  The Rise and Fall of Jerry Falwell Jr. at Liberty U.

  The ousted leader speaks to reporter Gabriel Sherman about the scandal and meltdown that ended his leadership of an evangelical empire. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1/10/2022
  

  The Shock Troops of the Next Big Lie

  by Katherine Stewart

  A historian of the religious right argues that the movement has recently integrated the Trumpist myth of stolen elections into its political mobilization of evangelical pastors. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  9/17/2021
  

  "The Eyes of Tammy Faye": When the GOP Got in Bed with the Christian Right

  The scandals involving the PTL television ministry of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker allowed Jerry Falwell to expand the inluence of the Moral Majority and connect the religious right more firmly to the Republican Party. A new film highlights that moment. 

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• SOURCE: Current
  8/18/2021
  

  Megachurches like John MacArthur's Led Evangelical Resistance to COVID Mandates

  by John Fea

  Historian John Fea rounds up recent writing on the role of star pastors in directing some evangelical churches toward resistance to pandemic measures while other churches engaged with meeting their members' health needs. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/9/2021
  

  The Connection Between Conservative Christianity and Fast Food Franchises

  by Marcia Chatelain

  Many fast food chains have roots in two pillars of 20th-century conservatism: Christianity and free markets.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/19/2021
  

  The Ideas Behind Trump’s 1776 Commission Report

  Nicole Hemmer, David Blight, Geoffrey Kabaservice, and Adam Laats place the 1776 Commission report in the context of longstanding political and cultural battles over historical narrative. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/15/2021
  

  White Christian Nationalists Want More Than Just Political Power

  by Lauren R. Kerby

  "White Christian nationalism also unites nostalgia for a lost age of Christian power with a profound sense of victimization. No one should underestimate how dangerous this combination is, particularly among those who decide that their faith requires them to retake their nation."

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10/6/2020
  

  The Religious Hijacking of the Supreme Court Doesn’t Require Amy Barrett

  Five of the court's current justices are already comfortable with a "free exercise supremacy" approach that casts the rights of the religious to mold society to their faith as superior to the rights of women, gays, and minorities to live with dignity.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/22/2020
  

  How the Religious Right Has Transformed the Supreme Court

  Law professors Lee Epstein and Eric Posner argue that the conservative bloc on the court has shifted from the libertarianism favored by big business to a more aggressive religious activism. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/26/2020
  

  The Evangelical Left once Had a Home in the GOP. What Happened?

  by John W. Compton

  Evangelical Christians in the political arena today support conservative Republicans. It's not just because the Democratic party moved too far left; the leaders of the New Right purged moderate Evangelicals from the ranks in the 1970s and left the religious left without a clear partisan home. 

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• 3/6/2020
  

  A Founder of American Religious Nationalism

  by Katherine Stewart

  Christian nationalism today is a political movement, and its primary goal is power. Its ultimate aim, formulated by R.J. Rushdoony, is to replace our modern constitutional Republic with a “biblical” order that derives its legitimacy not from the people but from God and the Bible – or, at least, the God and the Bible that men like Rushdoony claimed to know.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/8/19
  

  Fundamentalism turns 100, a landmark for the Christian Right

  by William Trollinger

  Christian fundamentalists have become a politically powerful group since the movement’s foundation in 1919.

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  2-5-18
  

  Race, not abortion, was the founding issue of the religious right

  Though opposition to abortion is what many think fueled the powerful conservative white evangelical right, 81 percent of whom voted for Donald Trump, it was really school integration.

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• SOURCE: The Cornell Daily Sun
  11-4-16
  

  Princeton’s Kevin Kruse Calls 2016 Election Time of ‘Reckoning’ for Religious Right

  “The old cross-denominational coalition of the religious right, one that had been in place since the 1970s has been deeply fragmented.”

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  12-19-13
  

  Pope Francis and the End of the Religious Right?

  by Steven Conn

  The pope is saying it is time for a new kind of political conversation.

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• SOURCE: Alternet
  11-14-13
  

  Sorry, Tea Partyers: Religious Right Rooted in Radical Progressivism

  by Ira Chernus

  How quickly Christian evangelicals forget their movement has a long history of demanding government intervention.