The Political Mobilization of Evangelicals from 1960 to the Present

Abstract

Evangelical Christians in Britain and America mobilized political protest groups in the 1970s and 1980s around the issues of abortion, pornography, and religion in state-supported schools. In contrast to the evangelical mobilization against alcohol discussed in the previous chapter, evangelical activism of the past few decades has not focused on a single social issue. Instead, believers in each nation organized groups in response to a series of social and political changes. The reason for evangelical involvement now and a century ago, however, is essentially the same: social change conflicted with evangelical religious and cultural values. This chapter demonstrates how an evangelical ideology led believers to form social and political groups against abortion and pornography and in favour of religion in state-supported schools.