Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism

by David R. Swartz

Book Overview

In 1973, nearly a decade before the height of the Moral Majority, a group of progressive activists assembled in a Chicago YMCA to strategize about how to move the nation in a more evangelical direction through political action. When they emerged, the Washington Post predicted that the new evangelical left could "shake both political and religious life in America." The following decades proved the Post both right and wrong--evangelical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244419
• ISBN13: 9780812244410
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"