Jimmy Carter, the politics of family, and the rise of the religious right [electronic resource] / J. Brooks Flippen.
Flippen, J. Brooks, 1959-
2011
E873.2 .F57 2011eb
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Title Jimmy Carter, the politics of family, and the rise of the religious right [electronic resource] / J. Brooks Flippen.
Author Flippen, J. Brooks, 1959-
ISBN 9780820339559 (electronic bk.)
9780820337692
0820337692
9780820337708 (pbk.)
0820337706 (pbk.)
Imprint Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 445 p.) : ill.
Call Number E873.2 .F57 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.926092
Summary As Jimmy Carter ascended to the presidency the heir apparent to Democratic liberalism, he touted his background as a born-again evangelical. Once in office, his faith indeed helped form policy on a number of controversial moral issues. By acknowledging certain behaviors as sinful while insisting that they were private matters beyond government interference, the author argues, Carter unintentionally alienated both social liberals and conservative Christians, thus ensuring that the debate over these moral "family issues" acquired a new prominence in public and political life. The Carter era, according to the author, stood at a fault line in American culture, religion, and politics. In the wake of the 1960s, some Americans worried that the traditional family faced a grave crisis. This newly politicized constituency viewed secular humanism in education, the recognition of reproductive rights established by Roe v. Wade, feminism, and the struggle for homosexual rights as evidence of cultural decay and as a challenge to religious orthodoxy. Social liberals viewed Carter's faith with skepticism and took issue with his seeming unwillingness to build on recent progressive victories. Ultimately, thar author argues, conservative Christians emerged as the Religious Right and were adopted into the Republican fold. Examining Carter's struggle to placate competing interests against the backdrop of difficult foreign and domestic issues, struggling economy, the stalled Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, disputes in the Middle East, handover of the Panama Canal, and the Iranian hostage crisis, the author shows how a political dynamic was formed that continues to this day.
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Series Since 1970 : histories of contemporary America.
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Introduction: Washington for Jesus
The times they are a-changin'
The year of the Evangelical
Rootin' and tootin'
His faith and virtue were not enough
The formidable conservative barrage
Profamily movement
The Reagan revolution
Epilogue: A fault line in American society.

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