Bible-Carrying Christians Conservative Protestants and Social Power

Name: Bible-Carrying Christians Conservative Protestants and Social Power
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ISBN: 9780195068344

ISBN-10: 0195068343

ISBN-13: 9780195068344

Edition: 2002

Authors: David Harrington Watt

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In the United States, there are hundreds of thousands of Protestant churches whose members habitually carry their Bibles with them. These churches--often referred to as "evangelical" or "fundamentalist"--play a crucial role in shaping American society. In this book, David Watt draws on years of fieldwork to present an elegant reinterpretation of the way that conservative Protestants influence American politics and culture. At the heart of the book is a sympathetic, but far from uncritical, analysis of those forms of social power that are assumed to be natural among Bible-carrying Christians. While outsiders often presuppose that evangelical Christians take for granted the authority of…

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List price: $120.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/14/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 8.31" wide x 5.71" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

David Harrington Watt is a professor of history at Temple University, and author of A Transforming Faith: Explorations of Twentieth-Century American Evangelicalism and Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power.




Fieldwork



Philadelphia



Social Power



Oak Grove Church



The Philadelphia Mennonnite Fellowship



The Philadelphia Church of Christ



Conclusion



The Interviews



Money Matters



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