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Book ID Asin: 1108405606
Book Title: The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)
Book Author: Andrew R. Lewis
Book Format: unknown Book Price: unknown
Book Category: Books, History, World and unknown
Book Rating: 4 ratings

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• Best Sellers Rank: #1,432,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #302 in Civil Rights
  • #378 in Abortion & Birth Control
  • #709 in Political Ideologies

• Customer Reviews:
  5.0 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

Book Review

Name: Ben Bishin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: How evangelicals became pro-life, and what their rights-based strategy means for American politics
Date: Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2018
Review: This book provides fascinating insight explaining how, why, and when evangelical Christians came to adopt the pro-life view of abortion, and what this change portends for American politics more generally. Lewis documents how the strategy evangelicals employed to achieve their goals shifted-- from making arguments in which they portrayed themselves as the protector of community morality and decency, to ones that rely on the use of religious liberty as a fundamental individual right protected in the 1st Amendment. This change has become central to their attempt to protect and expand their influence in American politics. Moreover, as it has met with increased success on the issue of abortion, they increasingly applied the strategy on other issues with which they have met with at least some success. I found especially interesting the (short) chapter on gay rights in which he argues that the Christian right's inability to counter the gay marriage claims was due in large part to the absence of an individual rights-based argument available to opponents of gay marriage. The implication here is that the extent to which the Christian right is likely to win is heavily dependent on their ability to identify and employ individual rights-based positions on the issue in question. This book is well-written and documented and nicely melds survey data with historical work.

Name: Benn
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Essential reading for making sense of religion and politics
Date: Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2018
Review: Lewis's research is top-notch, combining archival research with analysis of public opinion surveys to paint a vivid picture of an unexpected transformation shaping American religion and politics. If you want to understand how Christian conservatives are situating themselves for the next phase of the culture wars, read this book -- it provides a clear and convincing picture of how rhetoric on abortion has transformed the Christian conservative movement in important ways.

Name: Adam S.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: One of the greatest minds at the Unviersity of Cincinnati talks the Conservative Christian Movement
Date: Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2018
Review: Andrew Lewis writes just a fantastic book that can be help you get a good read on what the Conseravtive Christian movement looks like today, or it can be a great pick up by a teacher for a class on politics and religion. Highly reccomend this book, and if you’re a political science student at the University of Cincinnati take his classes, you won’t regret it.

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