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"The Nature of the Religious Right explores the history behind present day anti-environmental views held by white conservative evangelicals connected with the religious right movement"--
Christian conservatism --- Christianity and politics --- Religious right --- Evangelicalism --- Environmental degradation --- Environmental protection --- Human ecology --- Environmentalism --- Political aspects --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- United States. --- christian environmental stewardship, evangelical anti-environmentalism, religious right movement, pastor jerry falwell, environmentalism and religion.
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In 1999, the Reverend Jerry Falwell outed Tinky-Winky, the purple character from TV's Teletubbies. Events such as this reinforced in many quarters the common idea that evangelicals are reactionary, out of touch, and just plain paranoid. But reducing evangelicals to such caricatures does not help us understand their true spiritual and political agendas and the means they use to advance them. Shaking the World for Jesus moves beyond sensationalism to consider how the evangelical movement has effectively targeted Americans-as both converts and consumers-since the 1970's. Thousands of products promoting the Christian faith are sold to millions of consumers each year through the Web, mail order catalogs, and even national chains such as Kmart and Wal-Mart. Heather Hendershot explores in this book the vast industry of film, video, magazines, and kitsch that evangelicals use to spread their message. Focusing on the center of conservative evangelical culture-the white, middle-class Americans who can afford to buy "Christian lifestyle" products-she examines the industrial history of evangelist media, the curious subtleties of the products themselves, and their success in the religious and secular marketplace. To garner a wider audience, Hendershot argues, evangelicals have had to carefully temper their message. But in so doing, they have painted themselves into a corner. In the postwar years, evangelical media wore the message of salvation on its sleeve, but as the evangelical media industry has grown, many of its most popular products have been those with heavily diluted Christian messages. In the eyes of many followers, the evangelicals who purvey such products are sellouts-hucksters more interested in making money than spreading the word of God. Working to understand evangelicalism rather than pass judgment on it, Shaking the World for Jesus offers a penetrating glimpse into a thriving religious phenomenon.
Mass media --- Mass media in religion --- Evangelicalism --- Communication --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- History. --- media, religion, spirituality, conservative, politics, evangelical, righteousness, morality, judgement, sin, jerry falwell, conversion, consumers, television, tv, popular culture, faith, belief, piety, worship, christianity, kitsch, magazines, video, film, middle class, capitalism, products, message, salvation, redemption, holiness, profit, prophets, music, jesus, gender, women, purity, virginity, sex, sexuality, homosexuality, subculture, moody institute of science, apocalypse, prayer, nonfiction.
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Sociology of religion --- United States of America --- Evangelicalism --- liberals and conservatives in the Post-Civil War North --- the Fundamentalist-Modernist conflict --- the Separatists --- Billy Graham and modern Evangelicalism --- Pentecostals and Southern Baptists --- Evangelicals in the 1960s --- the fundamentalist uprising in the South --- Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority --- the political realignment of the South --- the Christian Right --- Pat Robertson --- politics and miracles --- the Christian Coalition and the Republican Party --- George W. Bush --- the New Evangelicals --- the transformation of the Christian Right --- America --- USA
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