Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right

by Randall Balmer

Book Overview

A surprising and disturbing origin story

There is a commonly accepted story about the rise of the Religious Right in the United States. It goes like this: with righteous fury, American evangelicals entered the political arena as a unified front to fight the legality of abortion after the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

The problem is this story simply isn't true.

Largely ambivalent about abortion until...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802879349
• ISBN13: 9780802879349
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.1"