Born Again: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church. 1988. Produced and directed by James Ault and Michael Camerini
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 91, Heft 4, S. 1088-1089
ISSN: 1548-1433
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 91, Heft 4, S. 1088-1089
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: The journal of popular culture: the official publication of the Popular Culture Association, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 131-140
ISSN: 1540-5931
In: Sociological analysis: SA ; a journal in the sociology of religion, Band 53, Heft 2, S. 230
ISSN: 2325-7873
In: Sociological analysis: SA ; a journal in the sociology of religion, Band 45, Heft 4, S. 393
ISSN: 2325-7873
Investigates the importance of civility in the expansion of the Christian Right's influence in US politics, drawing on a discussion of Oliver North's campaign in the 1994 VA Senate race. It is found that, although 67%-80% of evangelicals supported North, 20%-30% of these Christians withheld their endorsement. North's failure to carry the entire evangelical population is interpreted in terms of a basic ambiguity in evangelical Christianity: between the purity of their moral principles & their accommodations to their communities. Although North was widely viewed as holding religiously pure beliefs, many evangelical Christians understood his conduct during the Iran-Contra affair to be morally repugnant. These questions about his moral integrity prevented North from mobilizing evangelical Christians to his cause. It is concluded that if the Christian Right is to become more powerful in US politics, it must learn to accommodate to other groups in their communities. 1 Table, 29 References. D. M. Ryfe
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 200