The Resource The hijacking of Jesus : how the religious right distorts Christianity and promotes violence and hate, Dan Wakefield
The hijacking of Jesus : how the religious right distorts Christianity and promotes violence and hate, Dan Wakefield
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- Summary
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- "Christianity in America has become almost synonymous with right-wing fanaticism, conservative politics, and - courtesy of Mel Gibson - a brutally sadistic version of the religious experience. Millions of devout Christians, like Dan Wakefield, are appalled by this distortion of their faith, which only three decades ago stood for peace, equality, healing, and compassion for society's outcasts - the issues that made up the ministry of Jesus." "How did it come to pass that the Jesus who preached the Sermon on the Mount has in effect been hijacked by right-wingers and the Republican Party? Dan Wakefield travels across America in search of answers, meeting evangelical Christians, visiting the new mega-churches, finding "a cultish kind of Christianity as dangerous as it is distorted, " showing how right wingers supported by wealthy foundations are using "wedge issues" - homosexuality and abortion - to destroy the fabric of traditional mainline Protestantism."--BOOK JACKET
- Includes information on abortion, African Americans, Bible, George W. Bush, Christianity in religious political right America, civil rights, civil rights movement, William Sloan Coffin, death penalty, environmentalism, evangelical Christians, Jerry Falwell, God, homosexuality, Joseph Hough, Jr., Iraq Invasion/War, Kathryn Johnson, D. James Kennedy, Diane Knippers, Michael Lerner, mainline Christian churches, megachurches, Moral Majority, National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), pacifism, politics, poverty, progressive faith perspectives, racism, Religious Right, reproductive rights, Republican Party, Spencer Rice, Pat Robertson, social activism, social issues, spiritual progressives, United Methodist Church, Vietnam War protests, Jim Wallis, wedge issues, Robert Wenz, womenʼs liberation movement, etc
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 210 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- The Armies of the Right
- Earthly Revelation: Evangelicals Discover Blacks, the Poor, and the Environment!
- How They Hijacked Jesus
- Invasion of the Leukocytes
- The Wedges: Dividing to Conquer
- Megachurch Meets Mainstream
- Taking Back the Faith
- Isbn
- 9781560257455
- Label
- The hijacking of Jesus : how the religious right distorts Christianity and promotes violence and hate
- Title
- The hijacking of Jesus
- Title remainder
- how the religious right distorts Christianity and promotes violence and hate
- Statement of responsibility
- Dan Wakefield
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "Christianity in America has become almost synonymous with right-wing fanaticism, conservative politics, and - courtesy of Mel Gibson - a brutally sadistic version of the religious experience. Millions of devout Christians, like Dan Wakefield, are appalled by this distortion of their faith, which only three decades ago stood for peace, equality, healing, and compassion for society's outcasts - the issues that made up the ministry of Jesus." "How did it come to pass that the Jesus who preached the Sermon on the Mount has in effect been hijacked by right-wingers and the Republican Party? Dan Wakefield travels across America in search of answers, meeting evangelical Christians, visiting the new mega-churches, finding "a cultish kind of Christianity as dangerous as it is distorted, " showing how right wingers supported by wealthy foundations are using "wedge issues" - homosexuality and abortion - to destroy the fabric of traditional mainline Protestantism."--BOOK JACKET
- Includes information on abortion, African Americans, Bible, George W. Bush, Christianity in religious political right America, civil rights, civil rights movement, William Sloan Coffin, death penalty, environmentalism, evangelical Christians, Jerry Falwell, God, homosexuality, Joseph Hough, Jr., Iraq Invasion/War, Kathryn Johnson, D. James Kennedy, Diane Knippers, Michael Lerner, mainline Christian churches, megachurches, Moral Majority, National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), pacifism, politics, poverty, progressive faith perspectives, racism, Religious Right, reproductive rights, Republican Party, Spencer Rice, Pat Robertson, social activism, social issues, spiritual progressives, United Methodist Church, Vietnam War protests, Jim Wallis, wedge issues, Robert Wenz, womenʼs liberation movement, etc
- Cataloging source
- OCO
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wakefield, Dan
- Dewey number
- 322.10973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BR1642.U5
- LC item number
- W34 2006
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Jesus Christ
- Religious right
- Christianity and politics
- Label
- The hijacking of Jesus : how the religious right distorts Christianity and promotes violence and hate, Dan Wakefield
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
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- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
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- Contents
- The Armies of the Right -- Earthly Revelation: Evangelicals Discover Blacks, the Poor, and the Environment! -- How They Hijacked Jesus -- Invasion of the Leukocytes -- The Wedges: Dividing to Conquer -- Megachurch Meets Mainstream -- Taking Back the Faith
- Control code
- ocm63816551
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 210 pages
- Isbn
- 9781560257455
- Lccn
- 2006297594
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- 905968
- (Sirsi) o63816551
- (OCoLC)63816551
- Label
- The hijacking of Jesus : how the religious right distorts Christianity and promotes violence and hate, Dan Wakefield
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The Armies of the Right -- Earthly Revelation: Evangelicals Discover Blacks, the Poor, and the Environment! -- How They Hijacked Jesus -- Invasion of the Leukocytes -- The Wedges: Dividing to Conquer -- Megachurch Meets Mainstream -- Taking Back the Faith
- Control code
- ocm63816551
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 210 pages
- Isbn
- 9781560257455
- Lccn
- 2006297594
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- 905968
- (Sirsi) o63816551
- (OCoLC)63816551
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