Redeeming America: Piety and Politics in the New Christian Right

by Michael Lienesch

Book Overview

This balanced and comprehensive study of Christian conservative thinking focuses on the 1980s, when the New Christian Right appeared suddenly as an influential force on the American political scene, only to fade from the spotlight toward the end of the decade. In Redeeming America, Michael Lienesch identifies a cyclical redemptive pattern in the New Christian Right's approach to politics, and he argues that the movement is certain to emerge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807844284
• ISBN13: 9780807844281
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"