The radical mind : the origins of right-wing Catholic and Protestant coalition building / Chelsea Ebin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ebin, Chelsea, author.

Series:

Studies in US religion, politics, and law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious right--United States.

Religious right.

Catholic Church--Relations--Protestant churches.

Catholic Church.

Christian conservatism--United States.

Christian conservatism.

Christianity and politics--United States.

Christianity and politics.

Weyrich, Paul M.

Falwell, Jerry.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 228 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2024]

Summary:

"Through a close analysis of New Right architect Paul Weyrich, who is often seen as secular but was a committed Catholic who worked closely with evangelical Protestants, this book explores the way this Catholic-Protestant political alliance was forged by using a shared identity of victimhood to stitch together disparate religious groups, and then how this new political coalition constructed an imagined past that they projected into the future as the ideal goal. Chelsea Ebin calls this "prefigurative traditionalism" -- a paradoxical prefiguring of a manufactured past. Using this strategy, the new Religious Right obscures the radicality of its politics by framing the movement's aims as reactionary and defensive rather than proactive and offensive. An interdisciplinary work informed by the fields of history, religious studies, public law, and American politics, Prefiguring the Past is an insightful exploration of the origins of the New Christian Right, whose political victories are now radically reshaping the landscape of American society"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Reconceptualizing backlash

Paul Weyrich : 1968 and the roots of a (Catholic) radical

Building the New Right and the new traditional woman

Jerry Falwell : a fundamentalist phenomenon rises up to meet the grassroots

Pro-family politics and the political convergence of conservative Catholics and Protestants on the American right

Epilogue : who is it that overcomes the world?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ebin, Chelsea. Radical mind

ISBN:

9780700636990

0700636994

9780700637003

0700637001

OCLC:

1416966287