How Long to Read Piety and Public Funding

How Long Does it Take to Read Piety and Public Funding?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Piety and Public Funding by Axel R. Schäfer

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

How is it that some conservative groups are viscerally antigovernment even while enjoying the benefits of government funding? In Piety and Public Funding historian Axel R. Schäfer offers a compelling answer to this question by chronicling how, in the first half century since World War II, conservative evangelical groups became increasingly adept at accommodating their hostility to the state with federal support. Though holding to the ideals of church-state separation, evangelicals gradually took advantage of expanded public funding opportunities for religious foreign aid, health care, education, and social welfare. This was especially the case during the Cold War, when groups such as the National Association of Evangelicals were at the forefront of battling communism at home and abroad. It was evident, too, in the Sunbelt, where the military-industrial complex grew exponentially after World War II and where the postwar right would achieve its earliest success. Contrary to evangelicals' own claims, liberal public policies were a boon for, not a threat to, their own institutions and values. The welfare state, forged during the New Deal and renewed by the Great Society, hastened—not hindered—the ascendancy of a conservative political movement that would, in turn, use its resurgence as leverage against the very system that helped create it. By showing that the liberal state's dependence on private and nonprofit social services made it vulnerable to assaults from the right, Piety and Public Funding brings a much needed historical perspective to a hotly debated contemporary issue: the efforts of both Republican and Democratic administrations to channel federal money to "faith-based" organizations. It suggests a major reevaluation of the religious right, which grew to dominate evangelicalism by exploiting institutional ties to the state while simultaneously brandishing a message of free enterprise and moral awakening.

How long is Piety and Public Funding?

Piety and Public Funding by Axel R. Schäfer is 319 pages long, and a total of 82,621 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 101% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Piety and Public Funding Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 31 minutes to read Piety and Public Funding aloud.

What Reading Level is Piety and Public Funding?

Piety and Public Funding is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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