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Author Cowan, Benjamin A., author.

Title Moral Majorities across the Americas Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right / Benjamin A. Cowan
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (x, 294 pages) : illustrations
Contents It has become attractive to be rightist and conservative -- The beauty of inequality: Brazilian activism, Catholic traditionalism, and the makings of modern conservatism -- Guardians of morality and of good behavior: morality, dictatorship, and the emergence of conservative evangelical politics in Brazil -- Paths taken, paths repressed: dictatorship, Protestant progressives, and the rightward destinies of Brazilian evangelicalism -- Preach the world, reach the world: authoritarian Brazil and the organization(s) of a transnational right -- Uniting the right: staples of the transnational right-wing consensus and the platforms of contemporary conservatism
Summary "This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national nor religious boundaries. Benjamin A. Cowan chronicles the advent of a hemispheric religious movement whose current power and influence makes headlines and generates no small amount of shock in Brazil and the United States. These two countries, Cowan argues, played host to the principal activists and institutions who collaboratively fashioned the ascendant religious conservatism of the late twentieth century. Cowan not only unearths the deep historical connections between American and Brazilian religious conservatives but also proves just how essential Brazilian thinkers, activists, and institutions were to engendering right-wing populisms"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Fundamentalism -- Brazil
Fundamentalism -- United States
Religious right -- Brazil
Religious right -- United States
Church and state -- Brazil
RELIGION / Christianity / General
Church and state
Fundamentalism
Religious right
Brazil
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020035433
ISBN 9781469662091
1469662094
9781469662084
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