Chelsea Ebin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Drew University and co-editor of Male Supremacism in the United States: From Patriarchal Traditionalism to Misogynist Incels and the Alt-Right.
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PrefaceAcknowledgments A Note on Terminology Abbreviations Introduction 1. Reconceptualizing Backlash 2. Paul Weyrich: 1968 and the Roots of a (Catholic) Radical 3. Building the New Right and the New Traditional Woman 4. Jerry Falwell: A Fundamentalist Phenomenon Rises Up to Meet the Grassroots 5. Pro-Family Politics and the Political Convergence of Conservative Catholics and Protestants on the American Rights Epilogue: Who Is It That Overcomes the World? Notes Bibliography Index
A bold and compelling reinterpretation of the rise of the New Right that places religion at the heart of the movement. Ebin demonstrates that figures like Paul Weyrich and Jerry Falwell were not revivalists of tradition but political and theological innovators whose ideas bound together conservative Catholics and Protestants into a coalition that transformed American politics.""-Gene Zubovich, author of Before the Religious Right: Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States ""This bold reframing of the New Christian Right draws on extensive and perceptive archival research to illustrate the ambitious goal at the heart of the movement: to transform American culture and with it, American politics. Chelsea Ebin centers Catholic activist Paul Weyrich in the development of strategies that brought conservative Protestants and Catholics together under an identity of victimhood. Ebin's carefully constructed argument challenges the dominant framing of the New Christian Right as a 'backlash' to the cultural revolutions of the 1960s and demonstrates the revolutionary-and relevant-goal of cultural dominance at the heart of the movement.""-Seth Dowland, author of Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right