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The movement that would become the religious right had much of its origin in the work and activism of conservative operative Paul Weyrich, who had foreseen the potential to organize evangelicals and conservative Catholics into a political force in the early 1960s, and had reportedly started trying to do so during the 1964 Presidential election ...
They have been used as labels, sometimes pejorative, referring to members of the Christian right, particularly those whose ideology represents a synthesis of elements of American conservatism, conservative Christianity, and social conservatism, expressed through political means.
A photograph of William Saunders Crowdy which appeared in a 1907 edition of The Baltimore Sun. The origins of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement are found in Frank Cherry and William Saunders Crowdy, who both claimed that they had revelations in which they believed that God told them that African Americans are descendants of the Hebrews in the Christian Bible; Cherry established the "Church ...
The arc of Rep. Mike Johnson’s career encapsulates the shifting priorities of the religious right in the era of Donald Trump.
Samuel Corum/GettyThe 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion as a fundamental right for women wasn’t all that controversial at the time.The Catholic Church didn’t like it, but other ...
The term religious right may refer to religiously motivated right-wing or conservative movements such as: Religious conservatism; Christian right; Jewish right; Hindu nationalism (Hindutva, Sangh Parivar) Nippon Kaigi
It is a foundational democratic tenet taught in every basic U.S. history course: the Constitution bars the government from endorsing an official religion or favoring one over others. But moves by ...
A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern [clarification needed] origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations. Academics identify a variety of characteristics ...