The holy vote : inequality and anxiety among White evangelicals / Sarah Diefendorf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diefendorf, Sarah H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anxiety--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Anxiety.

Anxiety--United States.

Christianity and politics--United States--History--21st century.

Christianity and politics.

Christians, White--United States--History--21st century.

Christians, White.

Equality--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Equality.

Equality--United States.

Evangelicalism--United States--History--21st century.

Evangelicalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Inequality and anxiety among White evangelicals

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2023.

Summary:

Through two years of ethnographic fieldwork at a megachurch, sociologist Sarah Diefendorf investigates the ways in which the evangelical church is working to grow during a time in which cultural shifts are leading young people to leave religion behind. In order to expand, the church has revisited topics long understood as external threats to the organization, such as feminism, gender equality, racial inclusivity, and queer life--topics Diefendorf classifies as the "imagined secular" in the minds of evangelicals. The Holy Vote shows, however, that the church continues to uphold already privileged identities even as it reworks its messages to appear more welcoming, offering insight into how White evangelical understandings about sex and families have shaped a political movement that has helped remake the Republican Party and transform American politics. In this enlightening work, Diefendorf highlights the complex origins of these understandings and considers their intersections with contemporary culture and enduring social inequalities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Good and Godly in Trump’s America

Chapter 2 The Fear of Religious and Cultural Decline

Chapter 3 The Imagined Secular: Confronting Feminism, Gender, and Family Life

Chapter 4 White Evangelicals: Emotion Work and Racial Inequality

Chapter 5 Sacred Sex: Marriage and Heterosexuality

Chapter 6 We Aren’t the Extremists: Same-Sex Marriage and Changing Ideas of Sin

Chapter 7 Enduring Inequalities in Unsettled Times

Appendix A: Navigating Prayer, Positionality, and Institutional Review

Appendix B: Participant Overview

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520975958

0520975952

OCLC:

1356575701