{"id":28462,"date":"2023-09-14T12:16:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T19:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=28462"},"modified":"2023-09-14T12:16:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T19:16:19","slug":"book-bad-faith-race-and-the-rise-of-the-religious-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/09\/14\/book-bad-faith-race-and-the-rise-of-the-religious-right\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: \u201cBAD FAITH: RACE AND THE RISE OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1611330343i\/56672921.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/13402.Randall_Balmer\">Randall Balmer<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Balmer, a Dartmouth University religion professor, delivers a reassessment of \u201cthe alliance between white evangelicals and the far-right precincts of the Republican party.\u201d Balmer says that the court case that galvanized Evangelical political action was not the 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion, but the 1971 decision in Green v. Connally, which threatened the tax-exempt status of religious institutions that discriminated on the basis of race.<br><br>Evangelicals emerged as a political force in the 1970s after decades of retreat from secular society following the 1925 Scopes trial, according to Balmer, who details how opposition to state interference in \u201csegregation academies\u201d such as Jerry Falwell\u2019s Lynchburg Christian Academy and Bob Jones University (which had its tax-exempt status revoked in 1976) sparked the formation of the \u201creligious right.\u201d Paul Weyrich and other political activists then \u201cbrilliantly shifted public perception of the movement away from racism toward a more high-minded defense of religious freedom,\u201d setting the stage for conservative Christians, further galvanized by the abortion issue and fears of \u201csecular humanism,\u201d to turn against Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right Randall Balmer Balmer, a Dartmouth University religion professor, delivers a reassessment of \u201cthe alliance between white evangelicals and the far-right precincts of the Republican party.\u201d Balmer says that the court case that galvanized Evangelical political action was not the 1973&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/09\/14\/book-bad-faith-race-and-the-rise-of-the-religious-right\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1065],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28463,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28462\/revisions\/28463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}