White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America

by Anthea Butler

Book Overview

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469661179
• ISBN13: 9781469661179
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.7" x 7.9"