{"product_id":"piety-and-public-funding-evangelicals-and-the-state-in-modern-america-hardback-9780812244113","title":"Piety and Public Funding; Evangelicals and the State in Modern America (Hardback) 9780812244113","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePiety and Public Funding\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEvangelicals and the State in Modern America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAxel R. Schäfer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812244113\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 May 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.632 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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) \"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)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow is it that some conservative groups are viscerally antigovernment even while enjoying the benefits of government funding? In \u003ci\u003ePiety and Public Funding\u003c\/i\u003e historian Axel R. SchÄfer offers a compelling answer to this question by chronicling how, in the first half century since World War II, conservative evangelical groups became increasingly adept at accommodating their hostility to the state with federal support.\u003cbr\u003e Though holding to the ideals of church-state separation, evangelicals gradually took advantage of expanded public funding opportunities for religious foreign aid, health care, education, and social welfare. This was especially the case during the Cold War, when groups such as the National Association of Evangelicals were at the forefront of battling communism at home and abroad. It was evident, too, in the Sunbelt, where the military-industrial complex grew exponentially after World War II and where the postwar right would achieve its earliest success. Contrary to evangelicals' own claims, liberal public policies were a boon for, not a threat to, their own institutions and values. The welfare state, forged during the New Deal and renewed by the Great Society, hastened-not hindered-the ascendancy of a conservative political movement that would, in turn, use its resurgence as leverage against the very system that helped create it.\u003cbr\u003e By showing that the liberal state's dependence on private and nonprofit social services made it vulnerable to assaults from the right, \u003ci\u003ePiety and Public Funding\u003c\/i\u003e brings a much needed historical perspective to a hotly debated contemporary issue: the efforts of both Republican and Democratic administrations to channel federal money to \"faith-based\" organizations. It suggests a major reevaluation of the religious right, which grew to dominate evangelicalism by exploiting institutional ties to the state while simultaneously brandishing a message of free enterprise and moral awakening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555711512856,"sku":"9780812244113","price":36.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/piety-and-public-funding-evangelicals-and-the-state-in-modern-america-hardback-9780812244113","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}