TY - BOOK AU - Moore,Andrew S. TI - Evangelicals and presidential politics: from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump SN - 0807174343 AV - BR1642 .U5 E899 2021 U1 - 324.7/20973 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Baton Rouge PB - Louisiana State University Press KW - Christian conservatism KW - United States KW - Christianity and politics KW - Evangelicalism KW - Political aspects KW - Presidents KW - Religion KW - Religious right KW - Politics and government KW - 1977-1981 KW - 1981-1989 KW - 1989- N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : Jimmy Carter, the "Year of the Evangelicals," and the religious right / Andrew S. Moore -- Seeing red : evangelical and fundamentalist anticommunism and political engagement / Randall J. Stephens -- Full circle : the religious right from Bob Jones to Donald Trump / Randall Balmer -- An evangelical Black Panther : the politics of race and the conversion of Eldridge Cleaver / Dan Wells -- Building bridges and a broad-based movement : outreach to evangelicals and right-to-life strategy, 1972-1980 / Allison Vander Broek -- Evangelicals and abortion : the 1976 presidential election and evangelical pro-life partisanship / Daniel K. Williams -- Dwelling in the shelter of the most high : Ronald Reagan and the religious right / J. Brooks Flippen -- End of a life cycle : the decline and fall of southern evangelical political authenticity / Jeff Frederick -- A question of emphasis? : evangelicals, Trump, and the election of 2016 / R. Ward Holder -- Framing faith during the 2016 election : journalistic coverage of the Trump campaign and the myth of evangelical schism / Hannah Dick N2 - "Using a 1976 Newsweek cover story on the emerging politicization of evangelical Christians as a starting point, the contributors to "Evangelicals and Presidential Politics" engage the scholarly literature on evangelicalism from a variety of angles to offer new answers to persisting questions about the movement. The volume starts with the question of when evangelical political influence began and what its motivating impulses were. The standard historical narrative describes the period between the 1925 Scopes Trial and the early 1970s as a silent one for evangelicals. In that narrative, when they did re-engage in the political arena, they did so over abortion. Chapters by Randall Stephens and Randall Balmer challenge that narrative. Stephens moves the starting point up earlier in the twentieth century, and Balmer looks closely at the words and actions of leaders to conclude that race, not abortion, motivated activists. In his examination of the relationship between African Americanselection : journalistic coverage of the Trump campaign and the myth of evangelical schism / Hannah Dick ER -