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Redeeming America: Piety and Politics in the New Christian Right. (book reviews)

American Political Science Review,  June, 1994  by Moen, Matthew C.

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This book examines the political thought espoused by leaders of the Christian Right in their published work. It is a welcome addition to existing scholarship, which focuses disproportionately on the activities, rather than the thought, of the Christian Right. It is also a corrective to a voluminous literature produced in different academic disciplines, which skewers the Christian Right without much pretense of taking its viewpoints seriously.

Lienesch notes that the movement has often been "[viewed] as intellectually insignificant and dismissed as a moralistic abnormality". ...

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