Countercultural Conservatives: American Evangelicalism from the Postwar Revival to the New Christian Right

by Axel R. Schäfer

In the mid-twentieth century, far more evangelicals supported such "liberal" causes as peace, social justice, and environmental protection. Only gradually did the conservative evangelical faction win dominance, allying with the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan and, eventually, George W. Bush.
In Countercultural Conservatives Axel Sch?fer traces the evolution of a diffuse and pluralistic movement into the political force of the New...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299285243
• ISBN13: 9780299285241
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"