Piety and Public Funding: Evangelicals and the State in Modern America

by Axel R. Schäfer

How is it that some conservative groups are viscerally antigovernment even while enjoying the benefits of government funding? In Piety and Public Funding historian Axel R. Sch fer offers a compelling answer to this question by chronicling how, in the first half century since World War II, conservative evangelical groups became increasingly adept at accommodating their hostility to the state with federal support.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244117
• ISBN13: 9780812244113
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"