Jesus and Gin

Evangelicalism, the Roaring Twenties and Today's Culture Wars

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Church, Church History, General Christianity
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Author: Barry Hankins ISBN: 9780230110021
Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication: August 3, 2010
Imprint: St. Martin's Press Language: English
Author: Barry Hankins
ISBN: 9780230110021
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication: August 3, 2010
Imprint: St. Martin's Press
Language: English

Jesus and Gin is a rollicking tour of the roaring twenties and the barn- burning preachers who led the temperance movement—the anti-abortion crusade of the Jazz Age. Along the way, we meet a host of colorful characters: a Baptist minister who commits adultery in the White House; media star preachers caught in massive scandals; a presidential election hinging on a religious issue; and fundamentalists and liberals slugging it out in the culture war of the day. The religious roar of that decade was a prologue to the last three decades. With the religious right in disarray today after its long ascendancy, Jesus and Gin is a timely look at a parallel age when preachers held sway and politicians answered to the pulpit.

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Jesus and Gin is a rollicking tour of the roaring twenties and the barn- burning preachers who led the temperance movement—the anti-abortion crusade of the Jazz Age. Along the way, we meet a host of colorful characters: a Baptist minister who commits adultery in the White House; media star preachers caught in massive scandals; a presidential election hinging on a religious issue; and fundamentalists and liberals slugging it out in the culture war of the day. The religious roar of that decade was a prologue to the last three decades. With the religious right in disarray today after its long ascendancy, Jesus and Gin is a timely look at a parallel age when preachers held sway and politicians answered to the pulpit.

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