New Christian PoliticsDavid G. Bromley, Anson D. Shupe Mercer University Press, 1984 - 288 pages Forword / Phillip E. Hammond - Interpreting the new Christian right : a commentary on the substance and process of knowledge creation / Anson Shupe and David G. Bromley -- The new Christian right and its parent company : a study in political contrasts / James A. Speer -- The wicked shall not bear rule : the fundamentalist heritage of the new Christian right / Ralph Clark Chandler -- Support for the Moral Majority and its sociomoral platform / John H. Simpson -- The Moral Majority viewed sociologically / J. Milton Yinger and Stephen J. Cutler -- Public and clergy setiments toward the Moral Majority : evidence from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex / Anson Shupe and William A. Stacey -- Explaining the new religious right : status politics and beyond / Charles L. Harper and Kevin Leicht -- Some potential causes and consequences of the use of religion broadcasts / Gary D. Gaddy -- Television and popular religion : changes in church offerings / Razelle Frankl -- The new Christian right and the new media / Wesley E. Miller -- Televangelism and the future of American politics / Jeffrey K. Hadden -- The new Christian right and the 1980 elections / Robert Zwier -- No Hoosier hospitality for humanism : the Moral Majority in Indiana / Richard V. Pierard and James L. Wright -- The "Old Right" in action : Mormon and Catholic involvement in an equal rights amendment referendum / James T. Richardson -- The politics of preachers : Southern Baptist ministers and Christian right activism / James L. Guth -- Mobilizing Christians for political action : campaigning with God on your side / Margaret Ann Latus. |
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Page 44 - And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem ; their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Page 82 - Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?
Page 81 - Do you think most people would try to take advantage of you if they got a chance or would they try to be fair?
Page 78 - If some people in your community suggested that a book he wrote against churches and religion should be taken out of your public library, would you favor removing this book, or not?
Page 22 - ... there is a twofold government in man: one aspect is spiritual, whereby the conscience is instructed in piety and in reverencing God; the second is political, whereby man is educated for the duties of humanity and citizenship that must be maintained among men. These are usually called the "spiritual...
Page 82 - We are interested in how people are getting along financially these days. So far as you and your family are concerned, would you say that you are pretty well satisfied with your present financial situation, more or less satisfied, or not satisfied at all?
Page 78 - Suppose this admitted homosexual wanted to make a speech in your community. Should he be allowed to speak or not?
Page 22 - Yet civil government has as its appointed end, so long as we live among men, to cherish and protect the outward worship of God, to defend sound doctrine of piety and the position of the church, to adjust our life to the society of men, to form our social behavior to civil righteousness, to reconcile us with one another, and to promote general peace and tranquillity.
Page 79 - Which of these statements comes closest to your feelings about pornography laws: There should be laws against the distribution of pornography...
Page 22 - For spiritual government, indeed, is already initiating in us upon earth certain beginnings of the Heavenly Kingdom, and in this mortal and fleeting life affords a certain forecast of an immortal and incorruptible blessedness.