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Randall Balmer – Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right
Thursday, April 13, 2023
4:30-5 PM Reception
5-6:30 PM Lecture
Manetti Shrem Museum
There is a common narrative about the rise of the Religious Right in the U.S. — that American evangelicals entered the political arena as a unified front to fight the legality of abortion after the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. The problem is this story simply isn’t true. Scholar Randall Balmer discusses his newest book, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right, which uncovers the roots of evangelical watchwords like “religious freedom” and “family values” while getting to the truth of how this movement began.
Balmer holds the John Phillips Chair in Religion at Dartmouth College, Dartmouth’s oldest endowed professorship. He previously was a professor of American religious history at Columbia University. Dr. Balmer has written widely on Christianity’s interrelationships with American politics and in books including God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush, The Making of Evangelicalism: From Revivalism to Politics and Beyond and Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America, which was adapted into an award-winning documentary for PBS.
Organized by Professor Allison Coudert, Department of Religious Studies. Co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum