Category: Week 11: Conservatism, I

  • Falwell’s Gospel of Conservative Politics

    Jerry Falwell was more than just a preacher—he was a key political player who helped lay the foundation for what…

  • Southern Faith meets Politics

    During the Cold War era, military spending and the creation of jobs helped many working-class people become more financially stable…

  • Jerry Falwell and the Christian right

    Jerry Falwell was a key figure in launching the Christian Right, especially through his role in founding the Moral Majority.…

  • The Rise of Falwell & the Christian Right

    In Daniel K. Williams article titled “Jerry Falwell’s Sunbelt Politics: The Regional Origins of the Moral Majority,” the gradual transformation…

  • Legacies of Falwell

    Daniel K. William’s article, Jerry Falwell’s Sunbelt Politics: The Regional Origins of the Moral Majority, traces how political ideology evolved…

  • Falwell’s Sunbelt Right

    Willimas’s article proposes that Falwell was instrumental in forming a Christian Right primarily due to his status as an evangelical…

  • Rise of Conservatism

    In the article Falwell had envisioned his church for rural white Americans. He had many social services and welfare projects…

  • The Christian Right’s Leader: Jerry Falwell

    In 1979, Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority – a political organization that sought to preserve and promote American values…

  • The Politics of Jerry Falwell across the Sunbelt States

    Jerry Falwell was a bulbous minister and televangelist who, during the late 1900s, played a focal role in forming the…

  • The Christian Right

    Jerry Falwell was an important person in the creation of the Christian Right, a group of people who mixed their…