Huffington Post’s The Christian Right in Context, pt. 3

Cover for Hughes: Christian America and the Kingdom of God. Click for larger imageThe Huffington Post has published the third of a 4-part series by Richard Hughes based on his book Christian America and the Kingdom of God.

The Christian Right in Context, Part 3: Politics Over Persuasion

“By the 1960s, the world was out of joint again, prompting the rise of the Christian Right.

During that period, the United States experienced another great wave of immigration. While many of these newer immigrants were Hispanic Catholics and Pentecostals, many others were foreign to any kind of Christian agenda whatsoever. They came from places like Thailand, Cambodia and South Vietnam; India, Pakistan and Nepal; and Lebanon, Iran and Egypt. And they brought their religions with them: Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and many other religious traditions largely alien to most Americans at that time.

While this new wave of immigration was not the immediate catalyst for the revival of American fundamentalism, it formed an important backdrop to that revival.”

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Richard T. Hughes is Senior Fellow in the Ernest L. Boyer Center and Distinguished Professor of Religion at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, and author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Myths America Lives By and How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind.


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