{"product_id":"to-bring-the-good-news-to-all-nations-9781501768194","title":"To Bring the Good News to All Nations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen American evangelicals flocked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century to fulfill their Biblical mandate for global evangelism, their experiences abroad led them to engage more deeply in foreign policy activism at home.\u003c\/b\u003e Lauren Frances Turek tracks these trends and illuminates the complex and significant ways in which religion shaped America''s role in the lateCold War world. In \u003ci\u003eTo Bring the Good News to All Nations\u003c\/i\u003e, she examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assesses the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes, and considers how those same groups promoted the imposition of economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that stifled evangelism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing archival materials from both religious and government sources, \u003ci\u003eTo Bring the Good News to All Nations\u003c\/i\u003e links the development of evangelical fore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work is a welcome addition to the growing literature on religion and US foreign policy.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Bring the Good News to All Nations\u003c\/i\u003e is a thoughtful, lucidly written study of how activist networks are built and exert influence at the nexus of international and domestic politics. The book adeptly treats conservative evangelicals and their beliefs with sensitivity even while still evaluating them critically, providing a model for other scholars interested in similar topics.\u003c\/p\u003e * Passport *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauren Frances Turek's 2020 study, \u003ci\u003eTo Bring the Good News to All Nations\u003c\/i\u003e, provides the basis for a more complete and accurate assessment of the inspirations, aims, and achievements of the movement.\u003c\/p\u003e * First Things *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell researched, insightful, and solidly documented, \u003ci\u003eTo Bring Good News to All Nations\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant scholarly achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e * International Journal of Frontier Missiology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[T]his volume, which is richly researched and well organized, is a timely and valuable contribution to existing studies on the American Christian Right.\u003c\/p\u003e * Idées d'Amériques *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauren Frances Turek's new book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on evangelical Christianity and U.S. foreing relations.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Review of Faith \u0026amp; International Afffairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauren Turek's \u003ci\u003eTo Bring the Good News to All Nations\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome contribution to the burgeoning subfield of the religious history of U.S. foreign relations, bringing to light the poorly understood contours of white U.S. evangelical engagement with U.S. foreign policy in the 1970s and 1980s. With impressively detailed and careful archival, textual, and other media-related research, Turek breaks clichés, unlocks impasses, and fills misleading silences in conventional narratives of the rise of the Religious Right.\u003c\/p\u003e * Church History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurek succeeds in demonstrating how powerful evangelical networks influenced U.S. foreign policy. The book provides an important analysis of the development of evangelical human rights that is becoming even more relevant as the inheritors of this tradition have taken charge of the State Department. Turek's analysis also suggests the ways that a globally-focused Cold War politics defined white U.S. evangelicalism.\u003c\/p\u003e * Diplomatic History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExtensively researched and well-written,\u003ci\u003e To Bring the Good News to All Nations\u003c\/i\u003e makes a convincing case for the role of American evangelicals in international affairs. [T]he book is a wide-ranging work that greatly adds to our understanding of the role of religion in the last two decades of the Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e * Religion, State \u0026amp; Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[The book] is a deeply researched, cogently argued, and utterly compelling study of conservative Protestant 'influence' on American foreign policy. Turek's work is an important reminder to historians of religion that state power, political economy, and international exchange are never absent from religion's work in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e * Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurek is careful to show that U.S. evangelicals were not mere promoters of American interests overseas. Neither did they always speak in one voice. Turek's book invites readers to take a critical look at the present and future of evangelical human rights advocacy.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Review of Faith and International Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Defining and Defending Rights\u003cbr\u003e 1. A Global Shift in Missionary Christianity\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Communications Revolution And Evangelical Internationalism\u003cbr\u003e 3. Religious Freedom and the New Evangelical Foreign Policy Lobby\u003cbr\u003e 4. Fighting Religious Persecution behind the Iron Curtain\u003cbr\u003e 5. Supporting a \"Brother in Christ\" in Guatemala\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Challenge of South African Apartheid\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Evangelical Foreign Policy Activism Ascendant\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409369342295,"sku":"9781501768194","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501768194.jpg?v=1730506565","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/to-bring-the-good-news-to-all-nations-9781501768194","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}