{"id":1300,"date":"2013-07-27T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/07\/a-religious-legacy-with-its-leftward-tilt-is-reconsidered.html"},"modified":"2013-07-27T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T19:21:00","slug":"a-religious-legacy-with-its-leftward-tilt-is-reconsidered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/07\/a-religious-legacy-with-its-leftward-tilt-is-reconsidered.html","title":{"rendered":"A Religious Legacy, With Its Leftward Tilt, Is Reconsidered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

For decades the dominant story of postwar American religious history has been the triumph of evangelical Christians. Beginning in the 1940s, the story goes, a rising tide of evangelicals began asserting their power and identity, ultimately routing their more liberal mainline Protestant counterparts in the pews, on the offering plate and at the ballot box.<\/span><\/span>

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But now a growing cadre of historians of religion are reconsidering the legacy of those faded establishment Methodists, Presbyterians and Episcopalians, tracing their enduring influence on the movements for human rights and racial justice, the growing \u201cspiritual but not religious\u201d demographic and even the shaded moral realism of Barack Obama \u2014 a liberal Protestant par excellence, some of these academics say.<\/span><\/div>\n
After decades of work bringing evangelicals,\u00a0Mormons<\/a>\u00a0and other long-neglected religious groups into the broader picture, these scholars contend, the historical profession is overdue for a \u201cmainline moment.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
As one commenter put it on the blog\u00a0Religion in American History,<\/a>\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s heartening that dead, white, powerful Protestants are getting another look.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
In the last year, some half-dozen books on the subject have been published; Princeton and Yale have held conferences dedicated to religious liberalism, and the recent annual meetings of the American Historical Association and the American Academy of Religion included panel discussions on the topic.<\/span><\/div>\n
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