Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite

It is not often in academia that we can honestly describe a book as an engaging read, but D. Michael Lindsay's Faith in the Halls of Power is a deeply engaging—and genuinely interesting—book. Its greatest strength lies in its tremendous practical relevance to understanding life in the contempor...

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Main Author: Olson, Laura R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 2010
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 1, Pages: 129-130
Review of:Faith in the halls of power (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2007) (Olson, Laura R.)
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Summary:It is not often in academia that we can honestly describe a book as an engaging read, but D. Michael Lindsay's Faith in the Halls of Power is a deeply engaging—and genuinely interesting—book. Its greatest strength lies in its tremendous practical relevance to understanding life in the contemporary United States. The most significant story of religion in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America undoubtedly has been evangelical Protestantism's rise to social prominence and, correspondingly, to political and economic power. Lindsay's book explores this societal transformation in compelling, personalized detail.
ISSN:1759-8818
Contains:Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq010