Moral Majorities Across the Americas

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This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national nor religious boundaries. Benjamin A. Cowan chronicles the advent of a hemispheric religious movement whose current power and influence makes headlines and generates no small amount of shock in Brazil and the United States. These two countries, Cowan argues, played host to the principal activists and institutions who collaboratively fashioned the ascendant religious conservatism of the late twentieth century. Cowan not only unearths the deep historical connections between American and Brazilian religious conservatives but also proves just how essential Brazilian thinkers, activists, and institutions were to engendering right-wing populisms"--