Anthea Butler

Gebundenes Buch

White Evangelical Racism

The Politics of Morality in America

Beschreibung

"The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power"--

Autor

Anthea Butler is associate professor of religion at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World. A leading historian and public commentator on religion and politics, Butler has appeared on networks including CNN, BBC, and MSNBC and has published opinion pieces in the New York Times, the Washington Post , and many other media outlets.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of North Carolina Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 192mm x 127mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 258g
• ISBN-13: 9781469661179
• ISBN-10: 1469661179
• Artikelnr.: 60202798