Moral majorities across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the creation of the religious right
"This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national nor religious boundaries. Benjamin A. Cowan chronicles the advent of a hemispheric religious movement whose current power and influence makes headlines and generates no small amount of shock in Brazil and the United States. Thes...
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| Tipo di documento: | Stampa Libro |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
| Servizio "Subito": | Ordinare ora. |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina Press
[2021]
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| In: | Anno: 2021 |
| Recensioni: | [Rezension von: Cowan, Benjamin A., Moral majorities across the Americas] (2022) (Feitoza, Pedro)
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| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Brasile
/ USA
/ Nuova destra cristiana
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| Altre parole chiave: | B
Fundamentalism (United States)
B Religious Right (United States) B Church and state (Brazil) B Fundamentalism (Brazil) B Religious Right (Brazil) |
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Indice Quarta di copertina |
| Edizione parallela: | Elettronico
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| Riepilogo: | "This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national nor religious boundaries. Benjamin A. Cowan chronicles the advent of a hemispheric religious movement whose current power and influence makes headlines and generates no small amount of shock in Brazil and the United States. These two countries, Cowan argues, played host to the principal activists and institutions who collaboratively fashioned the ascendant religious conservatism of the late twentieth century. Cowan not only unearths the deep historical connections between American and Brazilian religious conservatives but also proves just how essential Brazilian thinkers, activists, and institutions were to engendering right-wing populisms"-- |
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| Descrizione del documento: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 146966206X |