Christians Are Hate Filled Hypocrites--And Other Lies You've Been Told

A Sociologist Shatters Myths From the Secular and Christian Media

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ID5708241
AuthorsA Walsh (0000-0002-4901-429X, Trinity College, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume53
Issue3
Pages480-483
Publication date2011-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Church and State (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-969X • E-ISSN: 2040-4867
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jcs/csr077
OpenAlexW2090265864
LanguageEN
Citations received4

The review copy of this book arrived in my mailbox on a day when the Rev. Terry Jones was squeezing every possible drop of global publicity out of his threat to burn a Quran on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks and as lawyers for the Westboro Community Baptist Church were preparing to defend before the U.S. Supreme Court their free speech rights to conduct antigay protests at the funerals of service members killed in the war in Iraq. I gazed at the book. “What if all the bad news you've been hearing about Christians isn't true?” blared the bold copy atop the back cover. I rolled my tired, middle-aged, scholarly eyes and braced myself. Then I began to read. What I found was not what the publisher's packaging had led me to expect. Bradley Wright's text offers a judicious, well-informed, and comprehensive picture of what survey research shows about the contemporary state of American religious belief and practice. While it is written and published for a popular and specifically evangelical Protestant audience, it offers the best brief introduction I know to the complex terrain of survey research on American religion.

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