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Evangelical News: Politics, Gender, and Bioethics in Conservative Christian Magazines of the 1970s and 1980s

by Anja-maria Bassimir

  • Hardback
  • 384 pages
  • Publisher: University Alabama Press
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 3.7 cm

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A 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 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 Christianity Today, Moody Monthly, Eternity, and Post-Americans/Sojourners as well as the feminist newsletter Daughters of Sarah. 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 Evangelical News: Politics, Gender, and Bioethics in Conservative Christian Magazines of the 1970s and 1980s, Anja-Maria Bassimir presents a nuanced view of evangelicalism in the late twentieth century through the lens of the movement's own media. Bassimir argues that community can be produced in discourse, especially when shared rhetoric, concepts, and perspectives signal belonging. To accomplish this, Evangelical News traces 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.
Evangelical News: Politics, Gender, and Bioethics in Conservative Christian Magazines of the 1970s and 1980s and Ruth ; A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching
Ruth ; A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching Evangelical News: Politics, Gender, and Bioethics in Conservative Christian Magazines of the 1970s and 1980s

  • Title

    Evangelical News: Politics, Gender, and Bioethics in Conservative Christian Magazines of the 1970s and 1980s

  • Author

    Anja-maria Bassimir

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    University Alabama Press

  • Published

    May 2022

  • Weight

    750g

  • Page Count

    384

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 3.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780817321246

  • ISBN-10

    0817321241

  • Eden Code

    5647126