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The Antigay Agenda: Orthodox Vision and the Christian Right

By Didi Herman

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1998
ISBN
9780226327655, 0226327655
Open Library ID
OL9521415M
Language
english
Format
CHM
Filesize
482 kB (493123 bytes)
Pages
252\0
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

In The Antigay Agenda , Didi Herman probes the values, beliefs, and rhetoric of the organizations of the Christian Right. Tracing the emergence of their antigay agenda, Herman explores how and why these groups made antigay activity a top priority, and how it relates to their political history. ''A penetrating analysis of the Christian Right's antigay agenda and of how that agenda is derived from the Christian Right's peculiar vision of American history and the Christian faith.''—Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Boston Book Review ''Public intellectualism at its best. . . . A comprehensive summary of the conservative Protestant worldview.''—Michael Joseph Gross, Boston Phoenix Literary Section ''Presents considerable information not previously part of the nation's political discourse. . . . [Herman] dissects the Christian Right's antigay stance dispassionately giving, as it were, the devil his due. For anyone on either side of this passionate and important conflict, that is an impressive accomplishment.''—Hastings Wyman, Jr., Washington Post Book World

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