The Politics of Evangelical Identity —— Local Churches and Partisan Divides in the United States and Canada

----- 政治的福音身份：在美国和加拿大当地教会和党派鸿沟

ISBN: 9780691161303 出版年：2014 页码：334 Bean, Lydia Princeton University Press

It is now a common refrain among liberals that christian right pastors and television pundits have hijacked evangelical christianity for partisan gain. The politics of evangelical identity challenges this notion, arguing that the hijacking metaphor paints a fundamentally distorted picture of how evangelical churches have become politicized. The book reveals how the powerful coalition between evangelicals and the republican party is not merely a creation of political elites who have framed conservative issues in religious language, but is anchored in the lives of local congregations. Drawing on her groundbreaking research at evangelical churches near the u.S. Border with canada--two in buffalo, new york, and two in hamilton, ontario--lydia bean compares how american and canadian evangelicals talk about politics in congregational settings.