The Background of the Christian Right
K. J. Am. Hist. 19 (2004), 159-174
The Background of the Christian Right and their Involvement in Politics
59)Myung-Duk
Choi*
I. Introduction In the 1970s the New Right movement arose and it became popular among conservative Americans in the 1980s. The Christian Right who were at the center of the New Right manifested a strong support for Ronald Reagan for the election of 1980 and 1984. Recently ‘Christian Coalition’ that has the leadership for Christian Right currently exercised a strong influence for the election of 1996 and 2000. Now they are looking for George W. Bush for a president again for the election of 2004.1) Two of the most well known Christian Right movements have been ‘Moral Majority’ by Jerry Falwell and ‘Christian Coalition’ by Pat Robertson. Many scholars have puzzled how Christian Right became a great political power. Hofstadter’s The Paranoid Style in American Politics provided the theoretical contribution
* Associate Professor, Department of Jewish Hebrew Studies, Konkuk University (mdchoi@konkuk.ac.kr) 1) In the 1960s the liberals have promoted communalism and secularism. They have produced radical egalitarianism and individualism. With this movement American society became secularized and liberalized. Those liberals have emphasized equality of outcomes rather than of opportunities. They have concerned individual right to the extremity to the cost of drastic reduction of limits to personal gratification. This counter-cultural movement against the traditional American culture has made free sex and drug popular. They have produced unprecedented moral decay in America. The spirit of the 60s revived in the 80s and culminated with Bill and Hillary Clinton. Against this the Christian Right Movement arose.
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how and why the Christian Right movements were possible.2) He explained it with psychological state of paranoia, “a chronic mental disorder involving delusions of persecution and inflated sense of
The Background of the Christian Right and their Involvement in Politics
59)Myung-Duk
Choi*
I. Introduction In the 1970s the New Right movement arose and it became popular among conservative Americans in the 1980s. The Christian Right who were at the center of the New Right manifested a strong support for Ronald Reagan for the election of 1980 and 1984. Recently ‘Christian Coalition’ that has the leadership for Christian Right currently exercised a strong influence for the election of 1996 and 2000. Now they are looking for George W. Bush for a president again for the election of 2004.1) Two of the most well known Christian Right movements have been ‘Moral Majority’ by Jerry Falwell and ‘Christian Coalition’ by Pat Robertson. Many scholars have puzzled how Christian Right became a great political power. Hofstadter’s The Paranoid Style in American Politics provided the theoretical contribution
* Associate Professor, Department of Jewish Hebrew Studies, Konkuk University (mdchoi@konkuk.ac.kr) 1) In the 1960s the liberals have promoted communalism and secularism. They have produced radical egalitarianism and individualism. With this movement American society became secularized and liberalized. Those liberals have emphasized equality of outcomes rather than of opportunities. They have concerned individual right to the extremity to the cost of drastic reduction of limits to personal gratification. This counter-cultural movement against the traditional American culture has made free sex and drug popular. They have produced unprecedented moral decay in America. The spirit of the 60s revived in the 80s and culminated with Bill and Hillary Clinton. Against this the Christian Right Movement arose.
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how and why the Christian Right movements were possible.2) He explained it with psychological state of paranoia, “a chronic mental disorder involving delusions of persecution and inflated sense of