Moral minority : the evangelical left in an age of conservatism / David R. Swartz.

"In 1973, nearly a decade before the height of the Moral Majority, a group of progressive activists assembled in a Chicago YMCA to strategize about how to move the nation in a more evangelical direction through political action. When they emerged, the Washington Post predicted that the new evan...

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Main Author: Swartz, David R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Politics and culture in modern America.
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505 0 |a pt. I. An emerging evangelical left -- pt. II. A broadening coalition -- pt. III. Left behind. 
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