TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cowan,Benjamin A.
TI  - Moral Majorities across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right 
SN  - 9781469662091
AV  - BT82 .M673 2021
KW  - Fundamentalism
KW  - Brazil
KW  - United States
KW  - Religious right
KW  - Church and state
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; It has become attractive to be rightist and conservative --; The beauty of inequality: Brazilian activism, Catholic traditionalism, and the makings of modern conservatism --; Guardians of morality and of good behavior: morality, dictatorship, and the emergence of conservative evangelical politics in Brazil --; Paths taken, paths repressed: dictatorship, Protestant progressives, and the rightward destinies of Brazilian evangelicalism --; Preach the world, reach the world: authoritarian Brazil and the organization(s) of a transnational right --; Uniting the right: staples of the transnational right-wing consensus and the platforms of contemporary conservatism; 2; b
N2  - "This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national nor religious boundaries. Benjamin A. Cowan chronicles the advent of a hemispheric religious movement whose current power and influence makes headlines and generates no small amount of shock in Brazil and the United States. These two countries, Cowan argues, played host to the principal activists and institutions who collaboratively fashioned the ascendant religious conservatism of the late twentieth century. Cowan not only unearths the deep historical connections between American and Brazilian religious conservatives but also proves just how essential Brazilian thinkers, activists, and institutions were to engendering right-wing populisms"--
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