Steven P. Miller
Auteur van The Age of Evangelicalism: America's Born-Again Years
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- Steven P. Miller (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is a historian of U.S. political culture, American religion, and the American South. Miller’s most recent book is The Age of Evangelicalism: America's Born-Again Years (Oxford University Press, 2014). His first book, Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South (2009), drew praise in the pages of The New York Times Book Review, Reviews in American History, and many other publications. It was nominated for the 2010 Merle Curti Award. Miller is the author of numerous scholarly and popular articles about the history of American religion and politics. He has written for such venues as Christian Century, History News Network, and Religion in American History. A resident of St. Louis, Missouri, Miller teaches U.S. and World History at Webster University and Washington University (University College). His website is https://sites.google.com/site/stevenpm...
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The Age of Evangelicalism: America's Born-Again Years door Steven P. Miller
An engaging broad-brush overview of evangelicalism. It focuses primarily on the role of evangelicals in politics.
Too much religion in politics? Blame Watergate
The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years by Steven P. Miller (Oxford University Press, $24.95).
The really good news from Steven P. Miller’s latest book is that, contrary to what it felt like, the Bush Administration and the years since mark the beginning of the decline of right-wing evangelical politics. He also makes the case that the rise of evangelical politics is directly tied to the perception of a moral decline in public life that had less to do with the social changes of the ’60s and ’70s, and far more to do with the lack of political morality in the Nixon Administration.
Miller, who is also the author of the well-received Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South, has some unique insights, foremost among them the way in which the political arm of the evangelical movement projected itself as so powerful and important that it actually forced the moderate religious and secularist opposition to address it—which in turn actually made the political evangelicals more powerful.
The Age of Evangelicalism doesn’t waste time, either; Miller makes his points clearly, with evidence, in less than 250 pages.
It might be described—though not by Miller, who is always appropriate—as a daisy chain of bullsh*t. Nonetheless, by looking at the rise of the born-again politician (a term that was simply unheard of before the mid-1970s) from both the inside and the outside with a scholar’s eye—and in an approachable style—Miller has offered readers a new way to understand recent political and cultural history.… (meer)
The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years by Steven P. Miller (Oxford University Press, $24.95).
The really good news from Steven P. Miller’s latest book is that, contrary to what it felt like, the Bush Administration and the years since mark the beginning of the decline of right-wing evangelical politics. He also makes the case that the rise of evangelical politics is directly tied to the perception of a moral decline in public life that had less to do with the social changes of the ’60s and ’70s, and far more to do with the lack of political morality in the Nixon Administration.
Miller, who is also the author of the well-received Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South, has some unique insights, foremost among them the way in which the political arm of the evangelical movement projected itself as so powerful and important that it actually forced the moderate religious and secularist opposition to address it—which in turn actually made the political evangelicals more powerful.
The Age of Evangelicalism doesn’t waste time, either; Miller makes his points clearly, with evidence, in less than 250 pages.
It might be described—though not by Miller, who is always appropriate—as a daisy chain of bullsh*t. Nonetheless, by looking at the rise of the born-again politician (a term that was simply unheard of before the mid-1970s) from both the inside and the outside with a scholar’s eye—and in an approachable style—Miller has offered readers a new way to understand recent political and cultural history.… (meer)
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