Dr. Francis Bremer interviews Dr. Randall Balmer about his latest book, "Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right," in which Balmer guides the reader along the convoluted historical trajectory of American evangelicalism, beginning with its emergence as a progressive force in the Second Great Awakening and ending with the 2016 election in which 81% of white evangelicals coalesced around Donald Trump for president.
The pivotal point, Balmer argues, was the period in the late 1970s when American evangelicals turned against Jimmy Carter—despite his being one of their own, a professed “born-again” Christian—in favor of the Republican Party, which found it could win their loyalty through the espousal of a single issue.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Introductions
0:37 Overview of the book
3:29 What is the importance of race for the religious right?
6:36 What is the difference between "traditional" and "modern" evangelicalism?
10:50 How do you deal with the changing meaning of the term "evangelical" over time?
13:04 What is the importance of the election of 1980?
16:33 Why do we still lack evangelical unity across races?
19:41 What is the importance of religious history today?
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