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To Bring the Good News to All Nations
Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations
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When American evangelicals flocked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century to fulfill their Biblical mandate for global evangelism, their experiences abroad led them to engage more deeply in foreign policy activism at home. Les mer
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When American evangelicals flocked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century to fulfill their Biblical mandate for global evangelism, their experiences abroad led them to engage more deeply in foreign policy activism at home. Lauren Frances Turek tracks these trends and illuminates the complex and significant ways in which religion shaped America's role in the late-Cold War world. In To Bring the Good News to All Nations, she examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assesses the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes, and considers how those same groups promoted the imposition of economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that stifled evangelism.
Using archival materials from both religious and government sources, To Bring the Good News to All Nations links the development of evangelical foreign policy lobbying to the overseas missionary agenda. Turek's case studies-Guatemala, South Africa, and the Soviet Union-reveal the extent of Christian influence on American foreign policy from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Evangelical policy work also reshaped the lives of Christians overseas and contributed to a reorientation of U.S. human rights policy. Efforts to promote global evangelism and support foreign brethren led activists to push Congress to grant aid to favored, yet repressive, regimes in countries such as Guatemala while imposing economic and diplomatic sanctions on nations that persecuted Christians, such as the Soviet Union. This advocacy shifted the definitions and priorities of U.S. human rights policies with lasting repercussions that can be traced into the twenty-first century. -- Cornell University Press
Using archival materials from both religious and government sources, To Bring the Good News to All Nations links the development of evangelical foreign policy lobbying to the overseas missionary agenda. Turek's case studies-Guatemala, South Africa, and the Soviet Union-reveal the extent of Christian influence on American foreign policy from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Evangelical policy work also reshaped the lives of Christians overseas and contributed to a reorientation of U.S. human rights policy. Efforts to promote global evangelism and support foreign brethren led activists to push Congress to grant aid to favored, yet repressive, regimes in countries such as Guatemala while imposing economic and diplomatic sanctions on nations that persecuted Christians, such as the Soviet Union. This advocacy shifted the definitions and priorities of U.S. human rights policies with lasting repercussions that can be traced into the twenty-first century. -- Cornell University Press
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cornell University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 312
- ISBN
- 9781501748912
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
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This work is a welcome addition to the growing literature on religion and US foreign policy.
» Choice
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To Bring the Good News to All Nations is a thoughtful, lucidly written study of how activist networks are built and exert influence at the nexus of international and domestic politics. The book adeptly treats conservative evangelicals and their beliefs with sensitivity even while still evaluating them critically, providing a model for other scholars interested in similar topics.
» Passport
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Lauren Frances Turek's 2020 study, To Bring the Good News to All Nations, provides the basis for a more complete and accurate assessment of the inspirations, aims, and achievements of the movement.
» First Things
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Well researched, insightful, and solidly documented, To Bring Good News to All Nations is a significant scholarly achievement.
» International Journal of Frontier Missiology
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[T]his volume, which is richly researched and well organized, is a timely and valuable contribution to existing studies on the American Christian Right.
» Idées d'Amériques
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Lauren Frances Turek's new book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on evangelical Christianity and U.S. foreing relations.
» The Review of Faith & International Afffairs
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Lauren Turek's To Bring the Good News to All Nations is a welcome contribution to the burgeoning subfield of the religious history of U.S. foreign relations, bringing to light the poorly understood contours of white U.S. evangelical engagement with U.S. foreign policy in the 1970s and 1980s. With impressively detailed and careful archival, textual, and other media-related research, Turek breaks clichés, unlocks impasses, and fills misleading silences in conventional narratives of the rise of the Religious Right.
» Church History
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Turek succeeds in demonstrating how powerful evangelical networks influenced U.S. foreign policy. The book provides an important analysis of the development of evangelical human rights that is becoming even more relevant as the inheritors of this tradition have taken charge of the State Department. Turek's analysis also suggests the ways that a globally-focused Cold War politics defined white U.S. evangelicalism.
» Diplomatic History
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Extensively researched and well-written, To Bring the Good News to All Nations makes a convincing case for the role of American evangelicals in international affairs. [T]he book is a wide-ranging work that greatly adds to our understanding of the role of religion in the last two decades of the Cold War.
» Religion, State & Society
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[The book] is a deeply researched, cogently argued, and utterly compelling study of conservative Protestant 'influence' on American foreign policy. Turek's work is an important reminder to historians of religion that state power, political economy, and international exchange are never absent from religion's work in the world.
» Religion
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Turek is careful to show that U.S. evangelicals were not mere promoters of American interests overseas. Neither did they always speak in one voice. Turek's book invites readers to take a critical look at the present and future of evangelical human rights advocacy.
» The Review of Faith and International Affairs