Right-wing takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention proceeded by top-level coup

Evidence

Not all efforts to drag American religion to the right came from the IRD, of course. The Southern Baptist Convention, for example, fell to what was in effect a coup. … “The leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention has been taken over by ultraconservatives,” writes Leon Howell in United Methodism @ Risk: A Wake-Up Call. “Although not a liberal church to begin with … [i]t was taken over from the top in the 1980s. Purges, schisms, and acknowledged right-wing loyalties have followed.” — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 283

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Conservative Baptists orchestrated a coordinated takeover of the SBC beginning in 1979 — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 248; Baptist women, not just men, drove the conservative gender turn in the SBC — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 250

Broader Connections

• Conservative Baptists orchestrated a coordinated takeover of the SBC beginning in 1979 #corroborates (0.95) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 248
• Baptist women, not just men, drove the conservative gender turn in the SBC #qualifies (0.70) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 250