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Bad Faith—Race and the Rise of the Religious Right: Randall Balmer
Episode 46
Published 4 years, 8 months ago
Description
Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College Randall Balmer tells of a meeting in Washington, DC that changed the course of his academic career, and set him on an unexpected investigation: the Religious Right’s origins is not to be located in the issue of abortion. Instead, he concludes, the movement began “to defend racial segregation.”
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