Stumping God: Reagan, Carter, and the Invention of a Political Faith (Studies in Rhetoric & Religion)

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For more than three decades, American presidential candidates have desperately sought the conservative Evangelical vote. With an ever broadening base of support, the Evangelical movement in America may now seem to many a very powerful lobbyist on Capitol Hill. As Andrew Hogue shows, however, this was not always the case.

In Stumping God Hogue deconstructs the 1980 presidential election, in which Ronald Reagan would defeat Jimmy Carter and John B. Anderson, and uncovers a disproportionately heavy reliance on religious rhetoric--a rhetoric that would be the catalyst for a new era of presidential politics. Until 1980, the idea that conservative politics was somehow connected with conservative theology was distant from the American imagination. Hogue describes the varying streams of influence that finally converged by the Reagan-Carter election, including the rapidly rising Religious Right. By 1980, candidates were not only challenged to appeal rhetorically to a conservative religious base, but found it necessary to make public their once-private religious commitments.

In compelling and illuminating fashion, Stumping God explains the roots of modern religious politics and encourages readers to move beyond the haze of rhetorical appeals that--for better or worse--continually clouds the political process.

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As someone who grew up in a time and place where the relationship between conservative politics and Christian faith not only seemed ubiquitous but pre-ordained, this book was a really interesting look at the roots of that marriage. With a wide, but concise, view of the decades-long build-up to the 1980 election, Hogue sheds new light on how this movement not only developed (often with unintended consequences), but how it shaped the way we view ourselves as a country. Hogue belongs to the way-too-small group of thought leaders on this subject that both recognize the importance of expressing values and personal faith within a political context while calling for what he aptly terms "lowering the stakes" of our national political discourse by approaching the debate with an attempt to acknowledge shared values that we all---religious and not---share and from which we all stand to benefit.

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