{"product_id":"uneasy-in-babylon-barry-hankins-9780817350819","title":"Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe definitive account of how conservative Southern Baptists came to dominate the nation's largest Protestant denomination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1979 a group of conservative members of the Southern Baptists Convention (SBC) initiated a campaign to reshape the denomination's seminaries and organizations by installing new conservative leaders who made belief in the inerrancy of the Bible a condition of service. They succeeded. This book is a definitive account of that takeover. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Barry Hankins argues that the conservatives sought control of the SBC not or not only to secure the denomination's orthodoxy but to mobilize Southern Baptists for a war against secular culture. The best explanation of the beliefs and behavior of Southern Baptist conservatives, Hankins concludes, lies in their adoption of the culture war model of American society. Believing that \"American culture has turned hostile to traditional forms of faith,\" they sought to deploy the Southern Baptist Convention in a \"full-scale culture war\" against secularism in the United States. Hankins traces the roots of this movement to the ideas of such post-WWII northern evangelicals as Carl F. H. Henry and Francis Schaeffer. Henry and Schaeffer viewed America's secular culture as hostile to Christianity and called on evangelicals to develop a robust Christian opposition to secular culture. As the nation's largest Protestant denomination, SBC positions on divisive cultural issues like abortion have remade the American political landscape, most notably in the reversal of Roe v. Wade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hankins also argues, however, that Southern Baptist conservatives sought more than orthodox adherence to Biblical inerrancy. They also sought an identity that was authentically Baptist \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e Southern. Hankin's excellent and prescient work will fascinate readers interested in contemporary American religion, culture, and public policy, as well as in the American South. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barry Hankins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817350810\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817350819\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 09\/17\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.12w x 1.05d","brand":"Barry Hankins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072819818751,"sku":"9780817350819","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_81075db4-c291-4699-98c7-52487cce293e.jpg?v=1685444117","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/uneasy-in-babylon-barry-hankins-9780817350819","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}