How White Evangelicals Fractured a Nation

The Rise of a Corrupted Faith, Race, and Political Power in Modern America

von Eva Sloan

160 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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How White Evangelicals Fractured a NationWhat happens when faith becomes deeply entangled with race, identity, and political power?For generations, evangelical Christianity has played a major role in American religious and cultural life. But over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, a significant segment of white evangelicalism became increasingly connected to conservative politics, helping reshape elections, public debates, social movements, and the meaning of religious identity in America.How White Evangelicals Fractured a Nation explores that complicated history.From the rise of the Religious Right and the transformation of the Republican coalition to battles over race, civil rights, abortion, education, immigration, sexuality, and the role of religion in government, this book examines how religious conviction and political strategy became increasingly intertwined.It asks difficult questions: When does religious conviction become political identity?How did race influence the development of modern evangelical politics?Why did white evangelicals become one of the most consistently Republican religious constituencies in America?And what happens to a democracy when religious and political identities become difficult to separate?The story is not simply about churches or elections. It is about people, institutions, movements, media networks, political organizers, pastors, activists, voters, and communities struggling over what America should become.The book also examines the tensions within evangelicalism itself. White evangelicals are not politically or culturally identical, and evangelical Christians of different racial backgrounds have often developed markedly different political identities.From the civil rights era to the rise of the Religious Right, from the culture wars to the political transformations of the twenty-first century, this book follows the forces that brought religion and partisan politics into an increasingly powerful alliance.This is a history of faith and politics-but also a story about race, identity, power, and the struggle over America's future.Whether you approach the subject as a believer, skeptic, historian, or simply a curious reader, How White Evangelicals Fractured a Nation offers a deeper look at one of the most consequential relationships in modern American public life.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176715507
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published