Автор:Oran Smith Год: 2000 Издание:NYU Press Страниц: 328 ISBN: 0814780741 A Choice Outstanding Academic Book "Smith has written a richly detailed, valuable study that clearly deserves a place on the shelves of scholars of southern politics and of religion and politics." --American Political Science Review "A fascinating and well-documented study of the transformation of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) into the single largest religious forcein modern American politics." --Southeastern Political Review By championing the ideals of independence, evangelism, and conservism, the Southern Baptist Covention (SBC) has grown into the largest Protestant denomination in the country. The Convention's mass democratic form of church government, its influential anual meetings, and its sheer size have made it a barometer for Southern political and cultural shift. Its most recent shift has been starboard-toward fundementalism and Republicanism. While the Convention once ofered a happy home to Harry Truman, Jimmy...
