Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0802879349 ISBN13: 9780802879349 Release Date: August 2021 Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Length: 141 Pages Weight: 0.55 lbs. Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.1" A surprising and disturbing origin story There 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. The problem is this story simply isn't true. Largely ambivalent about abortion until the late 1970s, evangelical leaders were first mobilized not by Roe v. Wade but by Green v. Connally, a lesser-known court decision in 1971 that threatened the tax-exempt status of racially discriminatory institutions--of which there were several in the world of Christian education at the time. When the most notorious of these schools, Bob J