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The Patriarchal Christian Right (w/ Kristin Kobes Du Mez)

ReImagining Liberty

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The Relationship Between Anti-Communism and the Rise of Patriotism

In the 40s, in the 50s, you see evangelicals like Billy Graham at the forefront of this anti-communist rhetoric. They weren't actually that different from many other Americans in holding some of these core values,. This is kind of leave it to be for era, right? Consensus. The majority of white southerners happen to be evangelicals. And so very much civil rights seems disruptive to the social order and to white evangelicals in the South.

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