C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy
Jeff Sharlet's C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy offers a disturbing view of subtle religious battles in the nation's capital and, indeed, globally waged by those in positions of substantial power. Written with the immediacy, energy, and depth of investigative journ...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2013, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 360-362 |
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| Summary: | Jeff Sharlet's C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy offers a disturbing view of subtle religious battles in the nation's capital and, indeed, globally waged by those in positions of substantial power. Written with the immediacy, energy, and depth of investigative journalism, Sharlet explores “C Street” as both a physical address two blocks from the Capitol building and as a metaphor for the fusing of Christianity and politics. C Street's story begins with Abram Vereide, a Norwegian immigrant who moved to the Seattle area and felt called by God to minister to the “up and outers” while also crushing organized labor. The nascent group Vereide established in the 1930s morphed over the years, always preferring a low profile and protean shape. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/cst020 |