Holy Terror

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- The truth about the "electronicchurch/' "Moral Majority/' the ''new right/' the "pro-lifers/' ^ "creationism" and the "Reagan Revolution":
"This is a story about religion and politics. It is a tale of two cultures—one fundamentalist^ one secular— and of a declared holy war for the soul of America being, waged pn i^ciety that, for the most part, still refusés to acknowledge that it is being attacked "
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Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman
When does the instrument of religious freedom become a weapon of religious intolerance? Why do we so frequently read about some aspect of the unlawful wedding of politics and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

- The truth about the "electronicchurch/' "Moral Majority/' the ''new right/' the "pro-lifers/' ^ "creationism" and the "Reagan Revolution":
"This is a story about religion and politics. It is a tale of two cultures—one fundamentalist^ one secular— and of a declared holy war for the soul of America being, waged pn i^ciety that, for the most part, still refusés to acknowledge that it is being attacked "
I

heir book is /Judicrous, sensible, well-res ghtening." , ¦ rDorisGrur
A- , The-'New
»,,-4 .
herp is rto dpubt that^Conway and Sfege e' door on areas of humAn understdndin eVi examined and that are in urgent need < V ' — David Kirb
' y - ^ . NewSoQie
' M
: IS a book of investigative reporti ng at it;
> ^Max Lerne i New York





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Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman
When does the instrument of religious freedom become a weapon of religious intolerance? Why do we so frequently read about some aspect of the unlawful wedding of politics and religion? Can we as a society defend ourselves against the onslaught of "holy terror"?
In what is sure to be one of the most controversial books of the year, Holy Terror looks at the coalition of fundamentalists and ultraconservative politicians that has become a potent force in politics and our private lives. This coalition's expressed aim is to put its scriptural beliefs into law, and its methods include today's most sophisticated mass-communications strategies and technology.
Authors of the highly acclaimed Snapping, about the epidemic of sudden personality change and religious cult phenomenon in America, Conway and Siegelman traveled 10,000 miles cross country and back, interviewing people on all sides of the issue: from targeted congressmen to conservative
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