Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite
It is not often in academia that we can honestly describe a book as an engaging read, but D. Michael Lindsay's Faith in the Halls of Power is a deeply engaging—and genuinely interesting—book. Its greatest strength lies in its tremendous practical relevance to understanding life in the contempor...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2010
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 1, Pages: 129-130 |
| Review of: | Faith in the halls of power (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2007) (Olson, Laura R.)
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| Summary: | It is not often in academia that we can honestly describe a book as an engaging read, but D. Michael Lindsay's Faith in the Halls of Power is a deeply engaging—and genuinely interesting—book. Its greatest strength lies in its tremendous practical relevance to understanding life in the contemporary United States. The most significant story of religion in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America undoubtedly has been evangelical Protestantism's rise to social prominence and, correspondingly, to political and economic power. Lindsay's book explores this societal transformation in compelling, personalized detail. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq010 |