{"product_id":"evangelical-news-anja-maria-bassimir-9780817321246","title":"Evangelical News: Politics, Gender, and Bioethics in Conservative Christian Magazines of the 1970s and 1980s","description":"\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive study of evangelical magazine discourse during the 1970s and 1980s and how it navigated and sustained religious convictions in a time of dramatic social change\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The 1970s and 1980s were a tumultuous period in US history. In tandem with a dramatic political shift to the right, evangelicalism also entered the public discourse as a distinct religious movement and was immediately besieged by cultural appropriations and internal fragmentations. Americans in general and evangelicals in particular grappled with issues and ideas such as feminism, abortion, birth control, and restructuring traditional roles for women and the family. During this time, there was a surge in readership for evangelical periodicals such as \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMoody Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEternity\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePost-Americans\/Sojourners \u003c\/i\u003eas well as the feminist newsletter \u003ci\u003eDaughters of Sarah\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e While each of these magazines--and other publications and media--contributed to and participated in the overall dissemination of evangelical ideology, they also had their own outlooks and political leanings concerning hot-button issues. In \u003ci\u003eEvangelical News: Politics, Gender, and Bioethics in Conservative Christian Magazines of the 1970s and 1980s\u003c\/i\u003e, Anja-Maria Bassimir presents a nuanced view of evangelicalism in the late twentieth century through the lens of the movement's own media. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bassimir argues that community can be produced in discourse, especially when shared rhetoric, concepts, and perspectives signal belonging. To accomplish this, \u003ci\u003eEvangelical News \u003c\/i\u003etraces the emergence of evangelical social and political awareness in the 1970s to the height of its power as a political program. The chapters investigate such topics as how evangelicals reenvisioned gender norms and relations in light of the feminist movement, the use of childhood as a symbol of unspoiled innocence, and the place of evangelicals as political actors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anja-Maria Bassimir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817321241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817321246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 5.91w x 1.42d","brand":"Anja-Maria Bassimir","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44056521375999,"sku":"9780817321246","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c76f4f14-890a-4e18-9aec-ab51065ac7c2.jpg?v=1685041768","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/evangelical-news-anja-maria-bassimir-9780817321246","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}