The radical mind : the origins of right-wing Catholic and Protestant coalition building / Chelsea Ebin.

The radical mind : the origins of right-wing Catholic and Protestant coalition building / Chelsea Ebin.

9780700637010 electronic book
070063701X electronic book
9780700636990 hardcover
9780700637003 (paperback)

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2024]

English

1 online resource (xxvii, 228 pages) : illustrations.

BR516 .E36 2024

261.70973

"Through a close analysis of New Right architect Paul Weyrich, who is often seen as secular but was a committed Catholic who worked closely with evangelical Protestants, this book explores the way this Catholic-Protestant political alliance was forged by using a shared identity of victimhood to stitch together disparate religious groups, and then how this new political coalition constructed an imagined past that they projected into the future as the ideal goal. Chelsea Ebin calls this "prefigurative traditionalism" -- a paradoxical prefiguring of a manufactured past. Using this strategy, the new Religious Right obscures the radicality of its politics by framing the movement's aims as reactionary and defensive rather than proactive and offensive. An interdisciplinary work informed by the fields of history, religious studies, public law, and American politics, Prefiguring the Past is an insightful exploration of the origins of the New Christian Right, whose political victories are now radically reshaping the landscape of American society"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Studies in US religion, politics, and law.

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