"Pray Not for this People for Their Good": Westboro Baptist Church, the Religious Right, and American Nationalism

Title: "Pray Not for this People for Their Good": Westboro Baptist Church, the Religious Right, and American Nationalism See all items with this value
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Type: Doctoral Dissertation
Creator: Rebecca Barrett-Fox
Date: 17 December 2010
Description: The dissertation places the theology and activism of Westboro Baptist Church in the context of American religious history and suggests that Westboro Baptist Church's message of national doom that reflects a strand of thought that has always been present in American religion. Using radical flank theory, the dissertation examines Westboro Baptist Church in the context of the contemporary Religious Right, noting how the offensive message and in-your-face tactics of Westboro Baptist Church serve as a foil to the "compassion" of the Religious Right, centering and softening the Religious Right's anti-gay theology, which similarly argues that sexual sins damn a nation, and its anti-gay political activism.
Format: Online, PDG; Link to KUScholarWorks
Language: English
Relation: Westboro Baptist Church

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