{"product_id":"bad-faith-race-and-the-rise-of-the-religious-right","title":"Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right","description":"What really gave rise to the Religious Right?\n\nThere is a commonly accepted story about the rise of the Religious Right in the United States. It goes like this: with righteous fury, American evangelicals entered the political arena as a unified front to fight the legality of abortion after the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.\n\nThe problem is this story simply isn’t true.\n\nBad Faith recounts how it was in fact the elimination of tax-exempt status for racially discriminatory Christian institutions, like Bob Jones University, that galvanized evangelicalism into a political force. Only later, when something more palatable was needed to cover for what was becoming an increasingly unpopular position following the civil rights era, was the moral crusade against abortion made the leading issue.\n\nThrough exhaustive research and trenchant historical analysis, Randall Balmer exposes the ingrained priorities of the Religious Right movement and uncovers the roots of coded evangelical watchwords like “religious freedom” and “family values”—helping to explain, in part, what this movement has become.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0802879349\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0802879349.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Balmer, Randall\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41605611946042,"sku":"DBV.0802879349.VG","price":9.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0802879349-0.jpg?v=1787286305","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/bad-faith-race-and-the-rise-of-the-religious-right","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}