This dissertation addresses the question of the foreign policy views of the leading spokespeople for the Religious Right in the United States since the end of World War II. The analysis begins with the early years of the Cold War, focusing on the religious overtones that quickly…
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The active presence of conservative Christians in American politics over the past forty years prompts many important historical questions about the role of religion in a largely secularized democratic society. Despite being key contributors to the "right-turn" in modern American…
Time magazine called 1976 "the year of the evangelical" partly in response to the rapid political ascent of the previously little-known Georgia governor Jimmy Carter. A Sunday school teacher and deacon in his local church, Carter emphasized the important role of faith in his lif…