Obamagelicals: How the Right Turned Left by Gilbert, Michele

Obamagelicals: How the Right Turned Left (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443825504)

Vendor: Michele Gilbert
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Format: Hardcover
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Obamagelicals: How the Right Turned Left by Gilbert, Michele

Obamagelicals: How the Right Turned Left

$58.95
Obamagelicals: How the Right Turned Left by Gilbert, Michele

Obamagelicals: How the Right Turned Left

$58.95
Format: Hardcover
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Obamagelicals: How the Right Turned Left demonstrates how rhetorical strategies normalized, marginalized, and/or anaesthetized the traditional views of the white Protestant evangelical voter and gave younger white Protestant evangelicals, whose self-identify as being centrists or modernists, a voice that had otherwise been drowned out by the traditional old guard of the Protestant evangelical religious right. Obamagelicals argues President Obama capitalized on this completely different set of value issues that resonated with white Protestant evangelical centrists and modernists in ways never dreamed possible. Obamagelicals is a unique contribution to the current, interdisciplinary conversation about the role of white Protestant evangelicals in the democratic process and the victorious presidential election. It is unique because it treats Protestant evangelicalism not as a monolith but as a mosaic-comprised of numerous denominations and belief patterns. Through this creation of space on the theological continuum of Protestant evangelicalism, believers draw attention to themselves by creating distinction and attention. This book examines how the shift in theological interpretations of the Scriptures lead to shift in cultural and political issues that went undetected by Republican candidate Senator John McCain but embraced by President Obama. Obamagelicals provides a consistent methodological approach that is easy to understand for those interested in religion and politics. Using data analysis and cross-tabulations, each topic or theme employs simple, easy to understand variables thereby allowing for a cross-comparison. Obamagelicals allows us the opportunity to begin to examine the connections between religiosity and political participation on such key policy issues as the economy, war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and same-sex marriages, within the mosaic of Protestant evangelicalism in the shadow of the 2008 election.

Author: Michele Gilbert,Ronald Eric Matthews
ISBN-10: 1443825506
ISBN-13: 9781443825504
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2010
Pages: 145
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.60d
By Michele Gilbert
By Michele Gilbert
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Ronald Eric Matthews, Jr. received his PhD from Kent State University, Ohio, USA, and also attended the Pollsters and Parishioners Workshop at Calvin College, Michigan, USA. Matthews has written on Protestant evangelicalism and biotechnology and co-edited Perspectives on the Legacy of George W. Bush with Dr Michael Grossman. He teaches various courses public policy with emphasis in religion and politics. Dr Michele A. Gilbert is a graduate of the University of Maryland, Maryland, USA; and Kent State University, Ohio, USA. Dr Gilbert is an independent researcher and adjunct instructor in Northeast Ohio. She has published articles on race and politics, public policy and urban politics.

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