[lit-ideas] The Religious Right Isn't What It Used to Be

<a hrep="
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/magazine/28Evangelicals-t.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1193565601-BFlVpcV/IKrM89dEXNEbHw";>Read
it here.</a> The New York Times article to which this link points is long
but well worth reading. To me--I grew up in a pious family then became an
anthropologist--it rings true, both to what I learned to feel as a child and
to what I learned to think in graduate school. The important message here is
the resurgence of interest in values like those expressed in "Love thy
neighbor as thyself," which is a long way from the market fundamentalism
that sees individuals as fungible workers and consumers, resources to be
exploited.

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John McCreery
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