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by Daniel K. Williams

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Daniel K. Williams

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God's Own Party by Daniel K Williams. An in-depth study into the evolution of Fundamentalist Christianity in American politics and eventually the GOP. The author has done his homework, some I have read in other books and heard about from other sources.

God's Own Party by Daniel K Williams. But, none quite so thorough in its scope. One of the best books I have read recently on the subject. From the beginnings in the 1920's to its present day intrusion into social issues (I like many other people, didn't realize it went that far back).

God's Own Party book. But, as God's Own Party demonstrates, they shouldn't have been. The Christian Right goes back much farther than most journalists, political scientists, and historians realize.

But, God's Own Party demonstrates, they shouldn't have been.

Daniel Williams, professor of history at the University of West Georgia .

Daniel Williams, professor of history at the University of West Georgia, published a welcome new contribution to this body of literature by placing this phenomenon in a much longer historical context . Contents - Previous document - Next document. 16. Daniel K. Williams, God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right. Bibliographical reference.

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Home Browse Books Book details, God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian. God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right. By Daniel K. Williams. The conventional wisdom has been that the Christian Right arose in response to Roe v. Wade and the liberal government policies of the 1970s.

While the influence of the Christian right is typically traced to the 1980 Presidential election, Daniel K. Williams argues in God's Own Party that it had actually been involved in politics for most of the twentieth century. While strongly advocating for these ideological matters, Dobson himself is more wary of the political spectrum and much of the resources of his group are devoted to other aims such as media. However, as a private citizen, Dobson has stated his opinion on presidential elections; on February 5, 2008, Dobson issued a statement regarding the 2008 presidential election and his strong disappointment

But, as God's Own Party demonstrates, they shouldn't have been.

When the Christian Right burst onto the scene in the late 1970s, many political observers were shocked. But, as God's Own Party demonstrates, they shouldn't have been. The Christian Right goes back much farther than most journalists, political scientists, and historians realize. Relying on extensive archival and primary source research, Daniel K. Williams presents the first comprehensive history of the Christian Right, uncovering how evangelicals came to see the Republican Party as the vehicle through which they could reclaim America as a Christian nation. A fascinating and much-needed account of a key force in American politics, God's Own Party is the only full-scale analysis of the electoral shifts, cultural changes, and political activists at the movement's core--showing how the Christian Right redefined politics as we know it.

Uriel

Balanced and thoughtful. It's been a long time since I read something as unbiased and factual. Thank God.......

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God's Own Party by Daniel K Williams. An in-depth study into the evolution of Fundamentalist Christianity in American politics and eventually the GOP. The author has done his homework, some I have read in other books and heard about from other sources. But, none quite so thorough in its scope. One of the best books I have read recently on the subject. From the beginnings in the 1920's to its present day intrusion into social issues (I like many other people, didn't realize it went that far back).
I personally do not believe religion has any place in politics especially in a party's platform. We are to diverse as a nation these days with far too many differing religions. We are also a secular nation where all religions are welcome. The Republican Party represents only one small faction of the country. I was raised to believe the Separation of Church and State was sacrosanct, if you didn't believe in it you didn't believe in the Constitution or anything connected with it. I believe religious people have a right to vote, to run for office and even have their voices heard in the public forum. But, that's where the line is in the sand. Anything beyond there is a violation of the constitution. When they take over a political party and make it to where it only reflects their myopic views. That is when they have gone way too far. As far as I am concerned religion in politics to many times has a disastrous effect. It corrupts both government and religion, as can be witnessed today. It turns a lot of us completely off and leaves a sour taste in our mouth.
So if you are interested in how the idea began to take shape and grow to where it's become a monster devouring us. This is the book for you. I can't rate it any higher than five stars. I haven't read another book like it. It answered all of my lingering questions about the Religious Right in the GOP.

Quashant

A very good and very comprehensive study on the american christian roght that you can read it as a novel. It is so well written that you would swallow it during a weekend. It lays down the whole passage of the Christian Right, from a small group to a major group affecting the Republican Party and the political situation in the USA. Sad to discover that the power of the the holly principles and values of the Christian Right are not attracting the same support as it used to be durin the R.Reagan years and it seems that it is fading away.. What a pitty that Reagan administration failed to re-impose school prayer due to a few republican senators in 1983..

RUsich155

Disappointment.

Mikarr

As someone born and raised in Northern Ireland, I have observed at first hand the dreadful things that can happen when fanatical religious beliefs are combined with fanatical political beliefs. The fact that it might happen on a much larger scale on the far side of the Atlantic is a worry. When one KNOWS that one is right and one then acquires the ability to enforce this on others, the result is not good. This is the possibility with the Religious Right takeover of the Republican Party.

While the situation will not (one hopes) result in another Inquisition (although some of the wilder fundamentalist shores demand Old Testament punishments such as death for homosexuals, adulterers, astrologers, boilers of young goats in their mother's milk, etc.), the desire to return to the Middle Ages appears strong. This is largely based not on the Bible, but, as this book points out, on a sort of US civic religion, in which the USA is seen as God's instrument on earth, and it is suffering because it has left the path of righteousness, as did Old Testament Israel, leading to the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem - remember how Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson said that 9/11 was God's punishment for homosexuality and abortion?

The scary thing about this book is that it is not a polemic against the Religious Right. It is a scholarly but easy read, even-tempered and even-handed, setting forth the facts, often in the protagonists' own words. It starts at the beginning, with Billy Graham's seeking to influence the Eisenhower and Nixon White Houses, and it ends with the Barack Obama's first election, pointing out that the McCain/Palin ticket got the lion's share of the evangelical vote, and that the Religious Right was far from dead. We have just seen how accurate this was, and we see how correct was the civic religion bit, with evangelicals voting en mass for the narcissistic, misogynistic travesty of what appears at best an agnostic who now inhabits the White House. Yet he has the enthusiastic support of the likes of the founder of Focus on the James Dobson. American Christianity has won a political party, but lost its soul in the process, thus ignoring completely what the Man it supposedly reveres said in Matt.16:26. He, of course, would probably address them in the words of Luke 6:46 - and they would of course ignore Him. I fear there is worse to come. I hope not.

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