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

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Cowan, Benjamin A., author.
Series:
North Carolina scholarship online.
North Carolina scholarship online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Religious right--Brazil.
Religious right.
Religious right--United States.
Church and state--Brazil.
Church and state.
Brazil--Politics and government--20th century.
Brazil.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 online resource) : 5 halftones
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Summary:
This history of the Christian right does not stop at national or religious boundaries. Benjamin Cowan chronicles the advent of a hemispheric religious movement whose current power and influence make headlines and generate no small amount of shock in Brazil and the United States.
Contents:
Chapter Four. Preach the World, Reach the World: Authoritarian Brazil and the Organization(s) of a Transnational Right
Chapter Five. Uniting the Right: Staples of the Transnational Right-Wing Consensus and the Platforms of Contemporary Conservatism
Notes
Index
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Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. It Has Become Attractive to Be Rightist and Conservative
Chapter One. The Beauty of Inequality: Brazilian Activism, Catholic Traditionalism, and the Makings of Modern Conservatism
Chapter Two. Guardians of Morality and of Good Behavior: Morality, Dictatorship, and the Emergence of Conservative Evangelical Politics in Brazil
Chapter Three. Paths Taken, Paths Repressed: Dictatorship, Protestant Progressives, and the Rightward Destinies of Brazilian Evangelicalism
Notes:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 26, 2023).
Previously issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
979-88-908609-5-8
979-88-908609-6-5
1-4696-6208-6
1-4696-6206-X
OCLC:
1242873404

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