tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post5099672367541736023..comments2024-03-26T11:33:59.219-06:00Comments on Religion in American History: (Conservative) Evangelicalism: Still Embattled, Still ThrivingPaul Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13881964303772343114noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-85966833344947545442013-01-27T11:52:53.561-07:002013-01-27T11:52:53.561-07:00Thanks for weighing in, Jason, on Mark's quest...Thanks for weighing in, Jason, on Mark's question. <br /><br />I wonder if conservative evangelicals are more inclined or just more conspicuous in proclaiming (as Jason described it so well in the post Mark linked to) "their majoritarianism while also performing their victimization, oppression, and persecution"? Of course <i>many</i> groups are galvanized by their sense of embattlement. But it seems to me that their sense of cultural custodianship--flowing from a nostalgic view of America as a Christian nation that they are trying to re-establish (and here I'm thinking of David Sehat's work)--make conservative evangelicals particularly prone to turning their perceived victimization into political action.Brantley Gasawayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02894338478934982958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-20036863745289329542013-01-27T09:19:00.364-07:002013-01-27T09:19:00.364-07:00For what it's worth, what I'm really going...For what it's worth, what I'm really going after in my "EM" book is the notion that the discursive production of "religion" as a politically combustible category is what enables very different groups of Americans (and not just evangelicals) to think of themselves as embattled majorities. That this is a shared self-imagining, flowing from a shared condition of political exhaustion, is what compels me.Jason Bivinsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-71495970773171527042013-01-26T11:57:55.986-07:002013-01-26T11:57:55.986-07:00Thanks for these reflections.
How do you see Smit...Thanks for these reflections.<br /><br />How do you see Smith's work intersecting with Jason Bivin's idea of evangelicals as an "Embattled Majority," as introduced at this blog?<br /><br />http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2012/11/embattled-majority-religion-and-its.html<br />Mark T. Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13687874101232569510noreply@blogger.com