To bring the good news to all nations : evangelical influence on human rights and U.S. foreign relations /
Turek, Lauren Frances, 1983-
To bring the good news to all nations : evangelical influence on human rights and U.S. foreign relations / Lauren Frances Turek. - Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages). - The United States in the world .
Includes bibliographies and index.
A Global Shift in Missionary Christianity -- The Communications Revolution and Evangelical Internationalism -- Religious Freedom and the New Evangelical Foreign Policy Lobby -- Fighting Religious Persecution behind the Iron Curtain -- Supporting a "Brother in Christ" in Guatemala -- The Challenge of South African Apartheid.
"This book examines the growth and influence of evangelical Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assessing the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes and to impose economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that persecuted Christians and stifled evangelism"--
9781501748936 9781501748929
2019035835
Christianity and international relations--United States.
Evangelicalism--Political aspects--United States.
Evangelicalism--Influence.--United States
Christianity and politics--United States.
Human rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Electronic Books.
BR115 / .T637 2020
To bring the good news to all nations : evangelical influence on human rights and U.S. foreign relations / Lauren Frances Turek. - Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages). - The United States in the world .
Includes bibliographies and index.
A Global Shift in Missionary Christianity -- The Communications Revolution and Evangelical Internationalism -- Religious Freedom and the New Evangelical Foreign Policy Lobby -- Fighting Religious Persecution behind the Iron Curtain -- Supporting a "Brother in Christ" in Guatemala -- The Challenge of South African Apartheid.
"This book examines the growth and influence of evangelical Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assessing the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes and to impose economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that persecuted Christians and stifled evangelism"--
9781501748936 9781501748929
2019035835
Christianity and international relations--United States.
Evangelicalism--Political aspects--United States.
Evangelicalism--Influence.--United States
Christianity and politics--United States.
Human rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Electronic Books.
BR115 / .T637 2020