The Inevitable Failure of the New Christian Right

Steve Bruce

doi:10.2307/3712051

The Inevitable Failure of the New Christian Right

Steve Bruce^*

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This essay attempts to gauge the impact of the New Christian Right (NCR), to draw attention to features of the movement and its environment that limit its effectiveness, and finally to offer a tentative explanation of the exaggerated responses to the movement. I suggest that there is an elective affinity between over-estimating the NCR and misunderstanding that body of ideas and propositions known (usually to its critics) as “secularization theory.”.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	229-242
Number of pages	14
Journal	Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review
Volume	55
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/3712051
Publication status	Published - Oct 1994

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