The Politics of Evangelicals: How the Issues of HIV and AIDS in Africa Shaped a "Centrist" Constituency in the United States

Dyer, Jennifer

doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfu041

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“…Evangelicals have consistently garnered attention as an important subject for US foreign policy (Amstutz, 2013;Turek, 2020). From their lobbying for a peaceful resolution to the Sudanese civil war in the early 2000s (Power, 2004), to their advocacy of assistance for HIV/AIDS in Africa (Dyer, 2014), to their fostering of a pro-Israel stance for the United States in the Middle East (Miller, 2014), the ways in which white evangelical groups have exerted influence on US foreign policy remain impactful. That said, the role of racial attitudes in shaping these views remains understudied.…”

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Race, Religion, and the Echoes of Status Insecurity in US Foreign Policy

Turner

Steele

2022

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political

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This paper examines the racial and religious historical influences on US ontological insecurity in a time of perceived hegemonic decline. It explores the role of particular Protestant theologies from the time of slavery up through the present, and how views on white superiority shaped such thought even after abolition, through Reconstruction, and especially animating the rise of the US as a world power in the 20th Century.

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Race, Religion, and the Echoes of Status Insecurity in US Foreign Policy

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Steele

2022

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“…98 Still, according to Dyer, American megachurches did become globally engaged in HIV/AIDS work, especially in Africa, in the period between 2000 and 2008, in part because of the new "centrist" leadership of megachurch pastors like Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, Franklin Graham, and Max Lucado (who were themselves in many cases inspired by the activism of Bono). 99 As this review indicates, most of the megachurch research analyzing perspectives on sex and sexuality focuses on North America. A fascinating exception to this general rule comes from Chong and Yew-Foong Hui, who draw upon survey data from twenty-four megachurches in Singapore to demonstrate that despite their relatively more conservative sexual ethics, megachurch evangelicals there are more likely than other Protestants to have and socialize with queer friends.…”

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Global Megachurch Studies: The State, Evolution, and Maturation of a Field

Bauman

2022

Journal of World Christianity

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Over the past decade, the field of megachurch studies has matured and become global in its scope and orientation. The number of texts produced on megachurches since 2010 is nearly triple the number produced before that date, and many of the newest texts decenter North America. Megachurch studies today, therefore, is a properly international and cosmopolitan field. The article has four interrelated aims: (1) to provide a thorough overview of major themes and work in megachurch studies, with special emphasis on works emerging in the last decade; (2) to update two excellent state-of-the-field reviews by Stephen Ellingson (in 2008 and 2010); (3) to make visible the now thoroughly global nature of the field by attending fully to its international focus, something done only briefly and tentatively in Ellingson’s reviews; and (4) to develop (in the ample footnotes) something of thorough bibliography of key texts in the field of megachurch studies.

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“…Franklin Graham, the son of the renowned evangelist Reverend Billy Graham, who was leading a faith-based organization called Samaritan's Purse, did not proselytize the then widespread view of AIDS as a punishment from God. He regarded it as an agenda that needed to be approached with Christ's love and sympathy when the organization's missionaries in Africa witnessed death, suffering and orphaning caused by AIDS and called the egregious scenes a holocaust (Dyer 2014(Dyer , 1017. Graham committed the organization to mobilize US engagement in the battle against AIDS on religious as well as humanitarian grounds (Behrman 2004, 270).…”

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Moralizing Pandemic: How Was HIV/AIDS Prioritized in Foreign Aid in the United States?

Kim¹

2021

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A dramatic foreign aid policy development in the US, the proclamation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), has been ascribed to the perception of a security threat. The securitizing scheme, however, has been debunked as a factoid not supported by empirical evidence. Despite the flaws of securitization as a causal theory, alternative explanations remain unexplored. This research seeks to address an alternative explanation, "moralization." The article begins with a brief history of changes in the US response to the global AIDS crisis since the 1980s, followed by a description of securitization theory as an alleged explanation for the aid increase in the early 2000s. Next, this research problematizes the AIDS-security nexus and proceeds to show how a humanitarian approach to the epidemic invoked a moral obligation to respond urgently to the catastrophic epidemic. The moralizing rationalization entails the explication of perception changes among significant individuals within and outside of policy circles from the theoretical framework of agenda setting, namely the garbage can model. The research closes with the theoretical and empirical implications for the international relations discipline and foreign policy analysis, as well as for the current health crisis caused by

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The Politics of Evangelicals: How the Issues of HIV and AIDS in Africa Shaped a "Centrist" Constituency in the United States

Cited by 4 publications

References 1 publication

Race, Religion, and the Echoes of Status Insecurity in US Foreign Policy

Race, Religion, and the Echoes of Status Insecurity in US Foreign Policy

Global Megachurch Studies: The State, Evolution, and Maturation of a Field

Moralizing Pandemic: How Was HIV/AIDS Prioritized in Foreign Aid in the United States?

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