Jesus and Gin Evangelicalism, the Roaring Twenties and Today's Culture Wars

Name: Jesus and Gin Evangelicalism, the Roaring Twenties and Today's Culture Wars
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ISBN: 9780230614192

ISBN-10: 0230614191

ISBN-13: 9780230614192

Edition: 2010

Authors: Barry Hankins

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Jesus and Ginis a rollicking tour of the roaring twenties and the barn- burning preachers who led the temperance movementthe anti-abortion crusade of the Jazz Age. Along the way, we meet a host of colorful characters: a Baptist minister who commits adultery in the White House; media star preachers caught in massive scandals; a presidential election hinging on a religious issue; and fundamentalists and liberals slugging it out in the culture war of the day. The religious roar of that decade was a prologue to the last three decades. With the religious right in disarray today after its long ascendancy,Jesus and Ginis a timely look at a parallel age when preachers held sway and politicians…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 8/3/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface



Warren Harding and the Moral Ambiguity of the Roaring Twenties



Prohibition as Culture War



Jesus's Athletes



ï¿½Shall the Fundamentalists Win?ï¿½



The Scopes Trial



Religious Scandal Right Next Door to Hollywood



Murder Trial in Texas



Black Heresy



Censorship and the Obscenity Wars



The Election of 1928



How the Roaring Twenties Set the Stage for the Culture Wars of Our Own Time


Notes


Index