Conservative Protestant politics

Author(s)

• Bruce, Steve

Bibliographic Information

Conservative Protestant politics

Steve Bruce

Oxford University Press, 1998

• : alk. paper

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This timely new study examines the place and nature of religion in industrial societies through a comparative analysis of conservative Protestant politics in a variety of 'first world' societies. Rejecting the popular, but misleading, grouping of diverse movements under the heading of 'fundamentalism', Bruce presents a series of detailed case studies of the Christian Right in the United States, Protestant unionism in Northen Ireland, anti-Catholicism in Scotland, Afrikaner politics in South Africa, and Empire Loyalism in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. He proceeds to examine the constraints that culturally diverse societies place on those who wish to promote political agendas based on religious ideas or on religiously informed ethnic identities.

Table of Contents

• 1. Modernization and Conservative Protestant Politics
• 2. Ulster and South Africa
• 3. Religion and Ethnicity in Ulster Unionism
• 4. Secularization and Toleration in Scotland
• 5. The Christian Right in the USA
• 6. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
• 7. Conclusion

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Details

• NCID: BA37945350
• ISBN:
  • 0198293925
• LCCN: 98013642
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: [ix], 236 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BR115.P7
  • DC21 : 261.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Christianity and politics -- Protestant churches
  • LCSH : Conservatism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity