Morality, Ethics, & the New Christian Right
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20337080 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin E Marty (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 14 |
| Publication date | 1981-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3561336 |
| PMID | 7298317 |
| OpenAlex | W1983673650 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
A n encyclopedia of religion may soon have an entry like this: The New Right is the generic term for a number of conservative and largely Protestant American political forces that surfaced in the elections of 1980. Best known of these was the Moral Majority, but Religious Roundtable and Voice were among other sometimes overlapping, sometimes competing groups. Members were recruited by radio and television evangelists or through direct-mail techniques. Their clienteles were joined by congregants in fundamentalist local churches. Unlike their evangelistic predecessors, the new leaders advocated explicit political involvement. Theirs was a politics of nostalgia for an earlier Christian America, and an opposition against secular humanism as the agent of moral decline in America. Among the chosen causes were opposition to abortion, disarmament, feminist and homosexual movements, and support of prayer and biblical teachings in schools
Abortion · Christian right · Humanism · Morality · Opposition (politics) · Political science · Politics · Prayer · Protestantism · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1982 - 2018 (37) |
| Highly cited | No |