An Empire on a Hill? The Christian Right and the Right to be Christian in America.
The writer considers the popularity of the Christian Right in American culture and politics. He examines recurrences and transformations in the U.S. polity and in its forms of evangelical Christianity over time, maintaining that such an examination is vital to framing an understanding of the Christ...
| Publicado en: | Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 78; no. 3; pp. 653 - 672 |
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George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research
Summer 2005
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| Sumario: | The writer considers the popularity of the Christian Right in American culture and politics. He examines recurrences and transformations in the U.S. polity and in its forms of evangelical Christianity over time, maintaining that such an examination is vital to framing an understanding of the Christian Right in relation to its recent apparent resonances within American culture. He explores the past and present of the Christian Right and highlights its struggles with three creatively paradoxical stances to the world beyond itself: positions of retreat countered by those of advance and appropriation; the simultaneous invocation of naturalistic and supernaturalistic approaches to reality; and the ineluctable links and tensions between self-mastery and mastery of others. |
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