Ch 9: Politics
As the Instrument of a New Ecumenical
Movement
Televangelism: Power and Politics on God`s Frontier | ||
Notes
Epigraphs: All from Vern McLellan, Christians in the Political Arena (Charlotte, NC: Associates Press, 1986), pp. vi, 97. Jerry Falwell, "Ministers and Marches." Sermon delivered at Thomas Road Baptist Church, Lynchburg, VA, March 21, 1965.
Robert N. Bellah, The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial (New York: Seabury Press, 1975), p. 1.
Harvey Cox, Religion in the Secular City: Toward a Postmodern Theology (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984).
Michael Harrington, The Politics at God's Funeral: The Spiritual Crisis of Western Civilization (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983).
Kenneth Burke, Permanance and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose (New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1965).
Leo P. Reibuffo, The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right from the Great Depression to the Cold War (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 241.
Jeffrey K. Hadden and Charles E. Swann, Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1981), p. 165.
Robert C. Liebman, "Mobilizing the Moral Majority," in Robert C. Liebman and Robert Wuthnow (eds.), The New Christian Right (New York: Aldine, 1983), pp. 49-73.
Jeffrey K. Hadden, Anson Shupe, James Hawdon, and Kenneth Martin, "Why Jerry Falwell Killed the Moral Majority," in Ray B. Browne and Marshall W. Fishwick (eds.), The Godpumpers (Bowling Green, OH: The Popular Press, 1987), pp. 101-15.
Ch 9: Politics
As the Instrument of a New Ecumenical
Movement
Televangelism: Power and Politics on God`s Frontier | ||