Moral majorities across the Americas : Brazil, the United States, and the creation of the religious right / Benjamin A. Cowan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cowan, Benjamin A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fundamentalism--Brazil.

Fundamentalism.

Fundamentalism--United States.

Religious right.

United States.

Religious right--Brazil.

Religious right--United States.

Church and state--Brazil.

Church and state.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]

Summary:

"This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national nor religious boundaries. Benjamin A. Cowan chronicles the advent of a hemispheric religious movement whose current power and influence makes headlines and generates no small amount of shock in Brazil and the United States. These two countries, Cowan argues, played host to the principal activists and institutions who collaboratively fashioned the ascendant religious conservatism of the late twentieth century. Cowan not only unearths the deep historical connections between American and Brazilian religious conservatives but also proves just how essential Brazilian thinkers, activists, and institutions were to engendering right-wing populisms"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

It has become attractive to be rightist and conservative

The beauty of inequality: Brazilian activism, Catholic traditionalism, and the makings of modern conservatism

Guardians of morality and of good behavior: morality, dictatorship, and the emergence of conservative evangelical politics in Brazil

Paths taken, paths repressed: dictatorship, Protestant progressives, and the rightward destinies of Brazilian evangelicalism

Preach the world, reach the world: authoritarian Brazil and the organization(s) of a transnational right

Uniting the right: staples of the transnational right-wing consensus and the platforms of contemporary conservatism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469662060

146966206X

9781469662077

1469662078

OCLC:

1184122742

Publisher Number:

99987320536