Between Armageddon and Hope

Protestant evangelicals ¹ have been a core part of the ‘New Right,’ the term commonly used to describe the ‘state-movement’ alliance that developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s between the Republican Party and numerous right-of-center social movements (Diamond 1995). Left-wing movements such as feminism and civil rights have been better documented in (and out) of the academy, but the New Right has arguably had an equal, if not greater, influence in American politics (Brinkley 1998).