Millennial Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares: The Cold War Origins of Political EvangelicalismOxford University Press, 31.10.2007 - 296 Seiten The Religious Right came to prominence in the early 1980s, but it was born during the early Cold War. Evangelical leaders like Billy Graham, driven by a fierce opposition to communism, led evangelicals out of the political wilderness they'd inhabited since the Scopes trial and into a much more active engagement with the important issues of the day. How did the conservative evangelical culture move into the political mainstream? Angela Lahr seeks to answer this important question. She shows how evangelicals, who had felt marginalized by American culture, drew upon their eschatological belief in the Second Coming of Christ and a subsequent glorious millennium to find common cause with more mainstream Americans who also feared a a 'soon-coming end,' albeit from nuclear war. In the early postwar climate of nuclear fear and anticommunism, the apocalyptic eschatology of premillennial dispensationalism embraced by many evangelicals meshed very well with the "secular apocalyptic" mood of a society equally terrified of the Bomb and of communism. She argues that the development of the bomb, the creation of the state of Israel, and the Cuban Missile Crisis combined with evangelical end-times theology to shape conservative evangelical political identity and to influence secular views. Millennial beliefs influenced evangelical interpretation of these events, repeatedly energized evangelical efforts, and helped evangelicals view themselves and be viewed by others as a vital and legitimate segment of American culture, even when it raised its voice in sharp criticism of aspects of that culture. Conservative Protestants were able to take advantage of this situation to carve out a new space for their subculture within the national arena. The greater legitimacy that evangelicals gained in the early Cold War provided the foundation of a power-base in the national political culture that the religious right would draw on in the late seventies and early eighties. The result, she demonstrates, was the alliance of religious and political conservatives that holds power today. |
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... eschatology, or the study of the end-times. Eschatology linked Christianity to a third creed of the period: anticommunism. Having just emerged from a war where people across the globe witnessed destruction on a scale not previously ...
... eschatology, or the study of the end-times. Eschatology linked Christianity to a third creed of the period: anticommunism. Having just emerged from a war where people across the globe witnessed destruction on a scale not previously ...
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... eschatological news.4 Today, talk of the end of the world engages both serious believers and scoffers and testifies to the legacy of the American apocalyptic narrative as well as the influence of Cold War millennialists. End-times ...
... eschatological news.4 Today, talk of the end of the world engages both serious believers and scoffers and testifies to the legacy of the American apocalyptic narrative as well as the influence of Cold War millennialists. End-times ...
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... eschatological allure to make sense of an increasingly conflict-ridden world. Definitions In 2004, National Public Radio host Tavis Smiley interviewed fundamentalist Jerry Falwell and Jim Wallis, the editor of Sojourners, an evangelical ...
... eschatological allure to make sense of an increasingly conflict-ridden world. Definitions In 2004, National Public Radio host Tavis Smiley interviewed fundamentalist Jerry Falwell and Jim Wallis, the editor of Sojourners, an evangelical ...
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... eschatological beliefs of ''Biblebelieving'' Christians have been accepted or rejected by American cultural, political ... eschatology, millennialism or millenarianism is the belief that a one thousand–year period of utopia, peace, and ...
... eschatological beliefs of ''Biblebelieving'' Christians have been accepted or rejected by American cultural, political ... eschatology, millennialism or millenarianism is the belief that a one thousand–year period of utopia, peace, and ...
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... eschatological narrative, which developed out of myriad prophetic Native American movements, European millenarian groups ... eschatology was by far the most influential aspect of the narrative. Various threads of millenarianism had been ...
... eschatological narrative, which developed out of myriad prophetic Native American movements, European millenarian groups ... eschatology was by far the most influential aspect of the narrative. Various threads of millenarianism had been ...
Inhalt
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1 Bombarding Evangelicals | 25 |
2 Praying in the End | 49 |
3 Putting the Trumpet to Their Lips | 75 |
4 The Cuban Climax | 101 |
5 Next Year in Jerusalem? | 133 |
6 A Different Kind of Prophet | 169 |
Conclusion | 199 |
Notes | 205 |
Select Bibliography | 241 |
Index | 267 |
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