Jesus and Gin: Evangelicalism, the Roaring Twenties and Today's Culture Wars
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Overview
Jesus and Gin is a rollicking tour of the roaring twenties and the barn- burning preachers who led the temperance movement—the anti-abortion crusade of the Jazz Age. Along the way, we meet a host of colorful characters: a Baptist minister who commits adultery in the White House; media star preachers caught in massive scandals; a presidential election hinging on a religious issue; and fundamentalists and liberals slugging it out in the culture war of the day. The religious roar of that decade was a prologue to the last three decades. With the religious right in disarray today after its long ascendancy, Jesus and Gin is a timely look at a parallel age when preachers held sway and politicians answered to the pulpit.
- Title: Jesus and Gin: Evangelicalism, the Roaring Twenties and Today's Culture Wars
- Author: Barry Hankins
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Pages: 257
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780230110021, 9780230614192, 0230614191, 0230110029
- Resource ID: LLS:9780230110021
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-12-22T23:55:05Z