Research Catalog

Title

Second coming : the new Christian right in Virginia politics / Mark J. Rozell, Clyde Wilcox.

Author

Rozell, Mark J.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wilcox, Clyde, 1953-

Description

xii, 285 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• In Second Coming, Mark Rozell and Clyde Wilcox examine the role of the Christian Right in Virginia Republican politics. After the failures of the national organizations and campaigns of the Christian Right in the 1980s, the movement began focusing its attention on state and local politics. As the home state of the now-defunct Moral Majority and headquarters of the Christian Coalition, Virginia has one of the most visible and best organized Christian Right groups active today. Building on a history of the Christian Right in Virginia from 1978 through 1992, Second Coming, gives a detailed analysis of the 1993 statewide elections and the 1994 senatorial race, all of which attracted national attention. The authors draw on a wealth of sources - mail surveys from delegates to state conventions, members of the Fairfax County Republican committee, and members of the Republican central committee; numerous in-person interviews of delegates at the 1993 and 1994 state conventions; and more than 100 in-depth interviews with Virginia Republicans and Christian Right leaders and activists.
• Second Coming places Virginia politics in a national context and offers a revealing look at the struggles between Republican party centrists and Christian Right activists. With the struggle for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination well under way, Rozell and Wilcox offer an invaluable primer on the workings of the Christian Right - how its members make their voices heard at party conventions, get out the conservative vote, and make their presence felt in elections with strength far beyond their numbers.

Subject

• Republican Party (Va.)
• Since 1900
• Conservatism > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > 20th century
• Elections > United States
• Virginia > Politics and government > 1951-
• Virginia > Church history > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Church history
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-274) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. God and the GOP in the Old Dominion -- 2. The Context: Institutions, Geography, and History -- 3. The Second Coming of the New Christian Right -- 4. The 1993 Elections: First-Wave Organizer as Second-Wave Candidate -- 5. The 1994 Senatorial Election: God, Guns, and the GOP -- 6. The Christian Right as Party Faction -- 7. The New Christian Right in the Old Dominion -- Appendix: Fairfax County Republican Survey Project.

ISBN

0801852978 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95044562^

OCLC

• 33667938
• SCSB-10793144

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library