Jesus and Gin: Evangelicalism, the Roaring Twenties and Today's Culture Wars

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.

• Author
• Barry Hankins

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 256

• Publisher
• St. Martin's Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-230-61419-2

• EAN
• 9780230614192

• Genres
• history

• Release date
• 2010