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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...

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Published in:Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 78; no. 3; pp. 653 - 672
Main Author: Coleman, Simon
Format: Article
Published: George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research Summer 2005
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Christianity & politics
United States
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