scholarly journals A direita cristã nos Estados Unidos: usos do passado e projetos políticos (1980)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-39
Author(s):  
Alexandre Guilherme da Cruz Alves Junior ◽  
Daniel Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Moral Majority ◽  
Jerry Falwell ◽  
The Mind

   O presente artigo tem o objetivo de analisar os principais elementos do pensamento da Direita Cristã norte-americana no final dos anos 1970 e início dos 1980. Para tal, investigaremos duas importantes obras escritas por destacadas lideranças da Moral Majority: Listen, America: the conservative blueprint for America´s moral rebirth (1980), de Jerry Falwell, e The Battle for the Mind: a subtle warfare (1980), de Tim LaHaye. Levando em conta a trajetória dos autores e o contexto de publicação e circulação das obras, procuraremos demonstrar como a articulação entre interpretações fundamentalistas dos textos bíblicos, concepções políticas conservadoras e uma perspectiva moral da história dos Estados Unidos estruturou a agenda política e as ações no espaço público de grupos religiosos conservadores naquele país, inaugurando uma aliança pragmática com o partido Republicano que permanece até os dias atuais. 

God Can Save Us

Rough Country ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Wuthnow
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Religious Right ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Moral Majority ◽  
Jerry Falwell ◽  
Protestant Denominations

This chapter discusses the emergence of the New Christian Right or simply the Religious Right as a powerful new force in American politics. The rise of the Religious Right has been examined from all angles, and several key factors have been identified. It clearly depended on leadership. The most visible leaders were preacher Jerry Falwell, whose Moral Majority rallies at state capitals had been gaining attention in the late 1970s, and fellow televangelist Pat Robertson, whose popular 700 Club television program included discussions of social and moral topics. Both were canny entrepreneurs who knew how to attract media attention, and there were conservative political operatives eager to enlist their support. There were unifying issues as well, such as opposition to abortion, homosexuality, and promiscuity, and the more general sense that religion was under siege by secularity and humanism. And there were lingering divisions within Protestant denominations and among Catholics over such issues as social activism, the legacies of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, communism, gender equality, the ordination of women, and theology.

scholarly journals THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT, THE FEDERAL COURTS, AND THE CONSTITUTION IN THE UNITED STATES

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (1, 2 & 3) ◽  
pp. 2006
Author(s):  
Judith A. Garber
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Christian Right ◽  
Ronald Reagan ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal Courts ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
White House ◽  
Moral Majority ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
Jerry Falwell

Twenty-five years have passed since the newly formed Moral Majority helped put Ronald Reagan in the White House and a Republican majority in the United States Senate. The Moral Majority was one organization (and its founder, the Reverend Jerry Falwell, one figure) at the centre of an emerging evangelical Protestant social movement. This movement was galvanized by two aims: defeating the Equal Rights Amendment,3 which Congress submitted to the states for consideration in 1972, and contesting the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade4 ruling, which recognized a constitutional right to abortion. In the early 1980s, “New Christian Right” was an accurate description of the first widespread public engagement of evangelicals in half a century.

In the Shadow of the Millennium: American Fundamentalists and the Jewish People

1992 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 435-450
Author(s):  
Yaakov Ariel
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Moral Majority ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Israeli Government ◽  
American Protestantism ◽  
Middle East Politics ◽  
Fundamentalist Movement ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
Jerry Falwell

In 1982 Menachem Begin, then Israel’s Prime Minister, presented Jerry Falwell, an evangelist and leader of the fundamentalist group ‘the Moral Majority’, with a medal of the Jabotinsky Order, an organization associated with Begin’s Likud Party. Observers both of American religion and Middle East politics could not help but notice the friendship that had developed between the Israeli government and conservative evangelical elements within American Protestantism. The special interest this segment of American Protestantism had in the fate of the Jewish people, and their support for a national Jewish home in the Land of Israel was evident from the early beginnings of the fundamentalist movement and was derived from their interpretation of biblical prophecy regarding the end of history—in which they see a prominent role for the Jewish people.

Religion and…

Worldview ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-12
Author(s):  
Richard John Neuhaus
Keyword(s):  
American Politics ◽  
New Right ◽  
American Religion ◽  
Moral Majority ◽  
Term Change ◽  
Visible Part ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Jerry Falwell

The question is asked whether Moral Majority is a threat or a challenge. The answer, I believe, is that it is both. The less intelligently we respond to the challenge, the greater is the threat.The concern is about a cluster of organizations and movements representing an alliance between religion and the New Right in American politics. Moral Majority and its leader, Jerry Falwell, are simply the most visible part of the phenomenon. I am persuaded that the religious New Right represents a deep and long-term change in American religion, culture, and politics. Moral Majority and other organizations may not be around five years from now, but the change they represent will be with us for a long time.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 225-238
Author(s):  
Paul Matzko
Keyword(s):  
Ronald Reagan ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Talk Radio ◽  
Jimmy Carter ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Moral Majority ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Jerry Falwell ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Fairness Doctrine

The deregulation of the airwaves by the Jimmy Carter administration, combined with the advent of cable broadcasting, allowed the resurgence of politically conservative radio in the late 1970s and 1980s. A new generation of religious broadcasters—including Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson—used radio and television to become household names. Indeed, it was while organizing to protect broadcasters from the Fairness Doctrine that the idea to create the “Moral Majority” came to Falwell. Also, radio broadcasting was the preferred way that former California Governor Ronald Reagan kept up his political brand as he prepared to run for president in 1976 and 1980. In the four decades since, right-wing talk radio has profoundly influenced national politics, but those tempted to call for a return to Fairness Doctrine–style regulation would do well to bear in mind Donald Trump’s expressed desire to challenge broadcasting licenses for critical journalistic outlets like NBC News.

scholarly journals Uma batalha pelas mentes: Tim LaHaye e a ascensão da Direita Cristã norte-americana

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-169
Author(s):  
Daniel Rocha (PUC Minas)
Keyword(s):  
De Re ◽  
Jerry Falwell ◽  
The Mind

Este artigo analisa a participação do pastor batista Tim LaHaye na mobilização política que caracterizou importantes setores do fundamentalismo protestante norte-americano nas décadas de 1970 e 1980. Além das ações efetivas de LaHaye no campo da política, como organização de lobbies e, juntamente com Jerry Falwell e outras lideranças, da Maioria Moral, examinaremos mais detalhadamente suas ideias perspectivas sobre como deveria se dar a atuação dos cristãos norte-americanos na arena política. Para tal, faremos um exame detalhado de seu livro The Battle For The Mind (1980), um livro que tornou-se uma referência importante na construção do discurso da Direita Cristã norte-americana. Inicialmente, apresentaremos um breve histórico da atuação política de Tim LaHaye ao longo da década de 1970 nos Estados Unidos. Em seguida, Na sequência, analisaremos as questões e argumentos principais que da obra The Battle For The Mind de LaHaye. Por fim, faremos uma breve reflexão, baseada ainda em The Battle For The Mind, sobre como a crença na iminência do fim dos tempos (crença pela qual LaHaye se tornou mais conhecido) se compatibilizou com um projeto de “re-cristianização” da sociedade norte-americana.

How Homo economicus lost her mind and how we can revive her

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter DeScioli
Keyword(s):  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Homo Economicus ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
Target Article ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
And Behavior

AbstractThe target article by Boyer & Petersen (B&P) contributes a vital message: that people have folk economic theories that shape their thoughts and behavior in the marketplace. This message is all the more important because, in the history of economic thought, Homo economicus was increasingly stripped of mental capacities. Intuitive theories can help restore the mind of Homo economicus.

Metaphors in the Mind

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannette Littlemore
Keyword(s):  
The Mind
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