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Chapter 5, which seems largely superfluous, describes the institutions of the parallel culture of evangelicalism by following the life of one evangelical from childhood through mids. Chapter 6, however, is where the real action is. What winds carry them so comfortably past their credentialed and mainstream evangelical colleagues?
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Many of the answers are predictable: Stephens and Giberson also discuss strategies invoked by the anointed themselves—such as claiming endorsement by God or that they are countering threats from Satan. One, however, merits closer attention. Out-group dynamics, by contrast, functions by creating an enemy out-group that helps unite groups that would normally be rivals in a common cause against the out-group. Despite these efforts to explain intellectual authority, The Anointed will likely disappoint historians looking for a contribution to scholarship on expertise. Many historians will be unsatisfied with the extent to which the explanation is based on social science theory rather.
Bracketing the explanatory framework in a separate chapter does not help matters.
The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age by Randall J. Stephens
The authors briefly raise the issue of trust in conjunction with cue-based epistemology, but they do not engage the substantial and important literature on trust that has arisen in the history of science and related fields in recent decades, as for example in the writing of Theodore Porter and Steven Shapin. Stephens and Giberson also do not explain how their work relates to the scholarly literature in fields like sociology and history on in-group and out-group dynamics or the authority of experts in American society.
The authors also miss the opportunity to connect their discussion with moments in American history where credentialed secular expertise has been a serious problem for public policy. In the nineteenth century, early proponents of the human sciences offered expert knowledge about racial and sexual differences that bolstered efforts to marginalize women and racial minorities.
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In the early twentieth century, several presidents of elite universities, who were widely regarded as progressive experts, endorsed eugenics. During the s, a near cult of technocratic expertise surrounded Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, but with disastrous results in Vietnam. This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Jan 24, Bethany rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is really important background information for all Americans. Evangelicals not alone, and not all of them, but by and large elected our current president, and our vice president is himself one of them. We need to take a long hard look at the 20th century development of this very American popular religion, because its influence is now driving a lot of American issues.
Richard Dawkins called Harvard educated! This is a prevalent attitude among evangelicals, and not just on creationism but on a host of other issues abortion, homosexuality, Islam, socialized medicine, regulations on firearms, etc. It seems that the more time goes on the more overtly political and the less even tenuously Biblical the issues become.
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Their solution is to build an entire alternative society within the bubble of their religion. A parallel religious subculture founded on science denialism spent a century disbelieving facts, dismissing society's best efforts at creating and refining new methods of acquiring facts, and finally disregarding the relevance of facts at all - now it's all fake news. May 17, Thomas Stevenson rated it really liked it. I know that I live in a secular world.
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So I don't have much of an idea of what's going on in the minds of evangelicals. But I wanted to know because their thoughts seem to underlie much of the political discourse, especially the visceral dislike of Obama. The Anointed is written by reflective evangelicals examining their brethren.
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The book is very informative, particularly in explaining splits within the evangelical world, the free wheeling expositions of some evangelical scholars, and anti-inte I know that I live in a secular world. The book is very informative, particularly in explaining splits within the evangelical world, the free wheeling expositions of some evangelical scholars, and anti-intellectualism.
The answers are here, particularly in the final chapter. Jan 28, Rafael Villalobos rated it really liked it. The author was completely fair in describing the Evangelical movement from within.
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As a former Evangelical I was able to confirm his descriptions and did not perceive any straw man arguments. The Evangelical movement is crumbling under the weight of unfulfilled expectations and this is a good account of just that. Mar 09, Antony rated it it was amazing. A first class account of the rise of the modern American Evangelical movement from two scholars that locate themselves within its ranks although admittedly within that slice of the movement critical of some of its best known names - James Dobson, Oral Roberts, Ken Ham etc. Jul 02, Carolyn Lind rated it really liked it Shelves: Here is a 'must read' for anyone wanting an insight into one of the most powerful religious political movements in modern American culture.
Jan 13, Eric rated it really liked it Shelves: Not without some flaws, still a very insightful look at how the evangelical world's leaders interact with the wider world of knowledge and experts and how millions of American evangelicals follow them somewhat blindly. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email.
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