Piety and Public Funding: Evangelicals and the State in Modern America

Axel R. Schäfer

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2012

Piety and Public Funding

Evangelicals and the State in Modern America

Axel R. Schäfer

In the series Politics and Culture in Modern America

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206593

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About this book

Despite the separation of church and state, public aid to religious agencies has traditionally been part of liberal social policy. This book shows that the post-World War II expansion of public funding for evangelical health care, educational, welfare, and foreign relief increasingly benefited the religious Right and contributed to its resurgence.

Author / Editor information

Axel R. Schafer is Director of the David Bruce Centre for American Studies at Keele University in the United Kingdom.

Reviews

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2014

"Exceptionally clear and engagingly written, Piety and Public Funding makes an important intervention that every subsequent historian of the conservative counterrevolution will need to take into consideration. By examining the fiscal links between the postwar state and organized religion, Schafer's case marks a distinct departure from both academic and popular conceptions of Christian conservatism in recent American history."—Bethany Moreton, author of To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

"Piety and Public Funding complicates, and sometimes even demolishes, much of the conventional wisdom about the rise of the religious right. Schäfer's tone is neither bombastic nor polemical, but the result is revolutionary nonetheless: a complete reconfiguration of our assumptions about conservative Protestants and Republican Party politics from the 1940s to the 1990s."—Andrew Preston, Cambridge University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction: How Evangelicals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. The Cold War State and Religious Agencies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 2. The Evangelical Rediscovery of the State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Chapter 3. Evangelicals, Foreign Policy, and the National Security State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
Chapter 4. Evangelicals, Social Policy, and the Welfare State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 5. Church-State Relations and the Rise of the Evangelical Right Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Conclusion: Resurgent Conservatism and the Public Funding of Religious Agencies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Keywords: American History; Public Policy; Religion; American Studies; Political Science; Public Policy; Religious Studies

eBook

Published: June 28, 2012
ISBN: 9780812206593