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Millennial Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares

This title examines the Americanization of Cold War evangelicalism and argues that these developments led up to the evangelical subculture's expansion with the rise of the New Christian Right.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 296 pages

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