Just Deserts: Ayn Rand and the Christian Right
Churches and conservative religious organizations now conduct well-coordinated and effective compassionate pedagogies for their followers on contested social issues such as sexuality. In this essay, I examine the ways in which conservative compassion is put to work in Christian Right morality politi...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2008]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2008, Volume: 19, Issue: 1 |
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Summary: | Churches and conservative religious organizations now conduct well-coordinated and effective compassionate pedagogies for their followers on contested social issues such as sexuality. In this essay, I examine the ways in which conservative compassion is put to work in Christian Right morality politics. I use the work of novelist Ayn Rand to analyze a variety of features of these campaigns, but especially the fixing and defending of boundaries between those who deserve compassion and those who do not. I argue that Rand provides a fruitful analytic for understanding how Christian conservative leaders conceptualize and execute their politics and pedagogy of compassion |
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ISSN: | 1703-289X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.19.1.003 |