4/15 - White Protestant Transformations

Fundamentalists/separatists/traditionalists

evil side of the Monkey Scopes Trial that took an inward turn

Evangelicals/moderates

also conservative, but realized you can be conservative but still amenable

example of a Evangelicals/moderates

Billy Graham

Modernists/mainline Prots

Liberal Protestants that gained popularity after the Monkey Scopes Trial; started to disappear slowly

what did Billy Graham focus on?

on what the individual should do, not societal reforms

1962 SCOTUS case on school prayer

previously there was a Protestant based prayer that provided no accommodations; however, this case outlawed any official school prayer led by a staff

1973 Roe vs. Wade

reproductive care was now accessible for all women

why were the conservatives concerned after these court cases?

they were concerned about social order

Christian Right

Evangelical Protestant Christians of a conservative persuasion who see the country as endangered on several fronts and who mobilize politically to address their concerns

what 3 things did the Christian Right do?

reinstating lost things, preserving endangered things, and new efforts

Televangelism

way of spreading their message through TV that had a particularly nostalgic and traditional way of presenting families/gender/race

Jimmy Carter

became president but did not work with the conservatives which angered them

after President Jimmy Carter, what did conservatives do?

they were extremely mad which motivated them to exercise their political rights in a way never seen before

Ronald Reagan

spoke to conservative religious groups, proposed a constitutional amendment for school prayer, and really worked with the conservatives in an unprecedented way