{"product_id":"piety-and-public-funding-evangelicals-and-the-state-in-modern-america-politics-and-culture-in-modern-america-9780812244113","title":"Piety and Public Funding Evangelicals and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePiety and Public Funding\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"Exceptionally clear and engagingly written, \u003ci\u003ePiety and Public Funding\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eTo Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: How Evangelicals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Cold War and Religious Agencies\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Evangelical Rediscovery of the State\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Evangelicals, Foreign Policy, and the National Security State\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Evangelicals, Social Policy, and the Welfare State\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Church-State Relations and the Rise of the Evangelical Right\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Resurgent Conservatism and the Public Funding of Religious Agencies\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405718659415,"sku":"9780812244113","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812244113.jpg?v=1730493384","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/piety-and-public-funding-evangelicals-and-the-state-in-modern-america-politics-and-culture-in-modern-america-9780812244113","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}