Was FDR the Antichrist? The Birth of Fundamentalist Antiliberalism in a Global Age

Sutton, Matthew Avery

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“…There is in fact a rich history of American political incivility dating back to the legendary political battles of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (Greenstein, 2006). Political rivals called Abraham Lincoln a ''traitor'' and a ''baboon'' (White, 2009), referred to Andrew Jackson as a ''bloodthirsty brawler,'' and while Franklin D. Roosevelt was a hero to some and was a ''socialist'' to others (Sutton, 2012). It could be the case that respondents with strong political orientations are simply better able to compare current levels of incivility to previous periods.…”

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Cultivating Political Incivility

York

2013

Electronic News

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Various scholars, pundits, and journalists, along with a majority of the American public believe incivility in politics is increasing. Nevertheless, the Annenberg Public Policy Center's (APPC) baseline measure of political incivility remains relatively flat. How can these incongruous conclusions be reconciled? This article suggests that perceptions of political incivility are a function of viewing distinct genres of television news media: ''hostile'' cable news versus network news. Using a content and secondary data analysis, this article demonstrates that (1) cable news outlets provide more coverage of elite political incivility than do network news outlets and that (2) cable news viewers perceive politics to be more uncivil than do network news viewers. Combined with previous research, the results suggest cable news viewers may perceive more incivility in national politics than actually exists. Theoretically, this article provides support for genre-specific media cultivation effects. Implications for cultivation theory and incivility are discussed.

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York

2013

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“…The question of the emergence of America's 'religious right' is a matter of historiographical contention and likely to remain so for many years to come. Matthew Avery Sutton persuasively argues that the anti-statist ideology at the core of the modern religious right originated with the beginnings of fundamentalist political mobilization, which 'developed among fundamentalists during the 1930s, parallel to and corresponding with the birth of modern liberalism' (Sutton 2012). Sutton's identification of the Depression-era origins of evangelical anti-liberalism and political mobilization in a variety of forms is important because the way in which politics and religion intersected in the 1930s set the trajectory for many features of the religious cold war.…”

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“…Billy Graham, a Cold Warrior pastor to America's post-war presidents, was a product of 1930s fundamentalism. Graham's Cold War popularity reflected the increasing influence of evangelicals (Sutton 2012). The 1930s marked the beginning of an important shift in religious demography and the decline in mainline churches as fundamentalism grew.…”

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The Roots of the Religious Cold War: Pre-Cold War Factors

Kirby

2018

Social Sciences

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The article is an examination of the roots of the amalgam of complex forces that informed the 'religious cold war'. It looks at the near and the more distant past. Naturally this includes consideration of the interwar years and those of the Second World War. It also means addressing divisions in Christianity that can be traced back to the end of the third century, to the official split of 1054 between Catholic and Orthodox, the impact of the Crusades and the entrenched hostility that followed the fifty-seven years imposition on Constantinople of a Latin Patriarch. It surveys the rise of significant forces that were to contribute to, as well as consolidate and strengthen, the religious cold war: civil religion, Christian fundamentalism and the Religious Right. The article examines both western and eastern mobilization of national religious resources for political purposes.

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“…AAA officials were boasting of success just as "the greatest dust storm in the history of the country carried Dakota soil from [the] sun-baked plains to the Atlantic Coast." 92 Others shared this line of thinking. A prominent fundamentalist minister drove through Dodge City, Kansas during a dust storm in the mid-1930s.…”

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The Dust Bowl, the Depression, and American Protestant Responses to Environmental Devastation

Stephens

2023

Church Hist

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The 1930s Dust Bowl on the Great Plains was one of the most catastrophic environmental disasters in history. Over-farming, severe drought, and high winds primed dust storms. Depopulation occurred in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico. All was made worse by the economic crisis. While historians have written extensively about the Dust Bowl, its causes and its effects, there is little detailed scholarship on the religious dimensions of this ecological tragedy. This article examines some of the important ways that the Dust Bowl shaped Protestant religious life and popular theology just as it prompted denominational relief campaigns, educational efforts, and conservation work. It looks particularly at Congregationalists, Baptists, Methodists, holiness groups, and Pentecostals. Reactions to the Dust Bowl reveal patterns of thinking about and acting on ecology, social concern, migration, millennialism, and new federal relief efforts. An examination of the growing historical fragmentation of white Protestantism is central to this article. In this era of environmental ruin and mass migration to the West, religious groups and individuals offered vastly different solutions and interpretations, foreshadowing later political and cultural conflicts. In the 1930s, long before the birth of modern environmentalism, Protestants were asking why things had gone so horribly wrong and what, if anything, could be done about it.

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Was FDR the Antichrist? The Birth of Fundamentalist Antiliberalism in a Global Age

Cited by 11 publications

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Cultivating Political Incivility

Cultivating Political Incivility

The Roots of the Religious Cold War: Pre-Cold War Factors

The Dust Bowl, the Depression, and American Protestant Responses to Environmental Devastation

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