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Epigraph: Richard John Neuhaus, The Naked Public Square (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1984), p. 52. Michael Harrington, The Other America (rev. ed.) (Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1961).

John B. Judis, "The Charge of the Light Brigade," New Republic, September 29, 1986, p. 16.

Pat Robertson, Answers to 200 of Life's Most Probing Questions (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1984), p. 197.

John Judis, p. 16.

Pat Robertson (with Bob Slosser), The Secret Kingdom (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1982), p. 7.

Richard Quebedeaux, The Worldly Evangelicals (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1978), p. 27.

Stuart Rothenberg and Frank Newport, The Evangelical Voter (Washington, DC: The Institute for Government and Politics of the Free Congress Research and Educational Foundation, 1984), pp. 25-37.

Anson Shupe and William A. Stacey, Born Again Politics and the Moral Majority: What Social Surveys Really Show (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1982), pp. 16-20.

Wade Clark Roof, "The New Fundamentalism: Rebirth of Political Religion in America," in Jeffrey K. Hadden and Anson Shupe (eds.), Prophetic Religions and Politics (New York: Paragon House, 1986), p. 26.

Ibid.

Reprinted in James Davison Hunter, American Evangelicalism (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1983), p. 50.

Wade Clark Roof, p. 23.

Anson Shupe and John Heinerman, "Mormonism and the New Christian Right: An Emerging Coalition?" Review of Religious Research, Vol. 27 (December), pp. 146-57.

Walter R. Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults (rev. ed.) (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 1977), p. 198.

James Davison Hunter, pp. 73-101.

See, for example, Joel Carpenter, "Geared to the Times, But Anchored to the Rock," Christianity Today, November 8, 1985, pp. 44-7; Haddon Robinson, "More `Religion,' Less Impact," Christianity Today, January 17, 1986, pp. 4-1, 5-1; Grant Wacker, "Searching for Norman Rockwell: Popular Evangelicalism in Contemporary America," in Leonard I. Sweet (ed.), The Evangelical Tradition in America (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1984), pp. 257-88; and George Gallup, Jr., Religion in America. 50 Years: 1935-85 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Religion Research Center, The Gallup Report), #236 (May).

Pat Robertson, 1984, pp. 187-8.

Ibid., p. 188.

Robert Bellah, The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial (New York: Seabury Press, 1975).

Ibid., p. 12.

Ibid., pp. 162-3.

Ibid., p. 162.

Robert Bellah, et al., Habits of the Heart (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985).

Pat Robertson, America's Dates With Destiny (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1986), p. 297.

ibid., p. 303.

James Davison Hunter, "American Protestantism: Sorting Out the PresentLooking Toward the Future," This World, Spring 1987, p. 58.

Pat Robertson, 1986, pp. 298-99.

Ibid., p. 300.