The Religious Right includes more than fundamentalists

Evidence

I use the term “Religious Right” to denote a movement of politically conservative evangelicals who, since the late 1970s, have sought to exert their influence in political, cultural, and legal matters. Some observers call them fundamentalists, though not all fundamentalists are part of the Religious Right, and the Religious Right includes many other kinds of evangelicals—pentecostals, for instance—besides fundamentalists. — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith, 36

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes Religious Right membership from fundamentalism proper — a category that is often conflated.
• XREF: connects to: American evangelicalism’s core traits trace to three eighteenth-century religious streams — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 28; Evangelicals’ turn against Carter was rooted in racial segregation defense, not abortion — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 138; Fundamentalism is largely a religious manifestation of right-wing authoritarianism. (+11 more)

Related

• The Religious Right’s origins lay in defending racial segregation, not opposing abortion (similarity 0.84)
• Evangelicals’ turn against Carter was rooted in racial segregation defense, not abortion (similarity 0.84)
• American evangelicalism was politically reformist long before it aligned with the right (similarity 0.83)
• Unorganized evangelicals voted for Carter before the Religious Right existed (similarity 0.82)
• The Religious Right’s founding narrative claims Roe v. Wade roused evangelicals from political passivity (similarity 0.82)
• The Religious Right adopted abortion only after racial segregation failed to rally voters (similarity 0.82)
• The Religious Right’s foundation is racial exclusion, not abortion opposition. (similarity 0.82)
• The abortion myth obscures the segregationist origins of evangelical activism. (similarity 0.81)
• The Religious Right’s abortion politics predate Roe and were chosen for strategic reasons (similarity 0.81)
• The Religious Right began as reaction to IRS desegregation of Christian schools. (similarity 0.81)
• The Religious Right needed a rallying issue besides racial segregation (similarity 0.81)
• Evangelical women’s gender identity fueled the grassroots Religious Right activism. (similarity 0.81)
• Evangelicals conspired against Carter’s reelection secretly (similarity 0.80)
• The Religious Right fabricated an origin myth linking its birth to Roe v. Wade (similarity 0.80)
• Progressive evangelicalism peaked in the mid-1970s with Carter’s election (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Unorganized evangelicals voted for Carter before the Religious Right existed #epitomizes (0.80) — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith, 83
• The Religious Right began as reaction to IRS desegregation of Christian schools. #exemplifies (0.80) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 312
• Evangelical women’s gender identity fueled the grassroots Religious Right activism. #expands (0.80) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 154
• The Religious Right needed a rallying issue besides racial segregation #expands (0.75) — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith, 119
• Proposed rallying issues for the Religious Right included gay rights before abortion #expands (0.75) — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith, 120
• The Religious Right fabricated an origin myth linking its birth to Roe v. Wade #contradicts (0.75) — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith, 87
• The Religious Right assembled through counter-conferences timed to unseat Carter #expands (0.75)
• Fundamentalism is largely a religious manifestation of right-wing authoritarianism. #qualifies (0.70)
• Religious claims serve different functions depending on political position #corroborates (0.70) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 207
• Reagan largely failed to deliver the Religious Right’s domestic agenda. #expands (0.70) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 254
• By 2008 the Religious Right’s old guard appeared to be losing young evangelicals. #qualifies (0.70)
• Promise Keepers was operationally embedded in the Religious Right while projecting ideological openness #expands (0.70) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 348