Summary of Anne Nelson's Shadow Network

By IRB Media

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#1 Protestant fundamentalism has dominated American society for the past two centuries, and it has been mobilized in the modern era.

#2 The 1960s was a transformative decade for the South, as the region was exposed to existential crisis for the first time. The Bible was under scrutiny, and theologians suggested that the Good Book was a profound work of literature rather than a chronicle of historical fact.

#3 The Southern Baptist Convention remained apart from other Protestant denominations during the war, and in 1962 the Supreme Court ended public school prayer. The fundamentalists were outraged.

#4 The 1960s saw a shift in the way the Baptist Church viewed its beliefs. While many conservatives were simply fed up with the liberal changes their church was undergoing, others saw it as a way to get power and push their conservative views.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669372851

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Insights on Anne Nelson's Shadow Network

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Protestant fundamentalism has dominated American society for the past two centuries, and it has been mobilized in the modern era.

#2

The 1960s was a transformative decade for the South, as the region was exposed to existential crisis for the first time. The Bible was under scrutiny, and theologians suggested that the Good Book was a profound work of literature rather than a chronicle of historical fact.

#3

The Southern Baptist Convention remained apart from other Protestant denominations during the war, and in 1962 the Supreme Court ended public school prayer. The fundamentalists were outraged.

#4

The 1960s saw a shift in the way the Baptist Church viewed its beliefs. While many conservatives were simply fed up with the liberal changes their church was undergoing, others saw it as a way to get power and push their conservative views.

#5

The church’s boards, agencies, and charities were reconstituted year by year, until they were uniformly conservative. Dissent was quelled. The new policies on homosexuality and abortion rights were a backlash against the church’s previous positions.

#6

The Southern Baptist Church’s activism benefited from a decline in membership among other Protestant churches. They began to extend their strategy from church to state, and aimed to establish theocracy, or government conducted through divine guidance.

#7

Some conservative evangelicals adhered to a philosophy called Dominionism, which aimed to reclaim the land for Jesus Christ by taking over civil structures.

#8

Weyrich, in an attempt to bring the radical right into the mainstream, founded the Heritage Foundation, the Republican Study Committee, and the American Legislative Exchange Council. He saw untapped potential in state-level politics, which the Democrats controlled.

#9

The New South provided Republicans with a new pool of voters to tap into, and Weyrich set out to make the Moral Majority a reality. He and his team offered