Evangelicals: Belief and Politics Today A conversation with David Gushee and Marcia Pally November 22, 2017 Professor Marcia Pally and Christian ethicist David Gushee discuss the meaning of “evangelical” and how that identification intersects with other social, political, and religious ideologies. MP: During the […]
Category: Writings on Evangelicals
Interview: Marcia Pally on the New Evangelicals
Interview: Marcia Pally on the New Evangelicals By Jarrod Longbons The Art of the Good Life: Contemporary Thinkers You Should Read Nov. 1, 2011 Professor Marcia Pally teaches at New YorkUniversity in Multilingual Multicultural Studies and at Fordham University’s Institute of American Language and Culture. Her new book is The New […]
Why Evangelical Christians have left the Right
Why Evangelical Christians have left the Right By Marcia Pally Religion & Ethics Friday 28 October 2011 For much of the last century, America’s evangelicals have been the whipping boy of progressives and intellectuals of all sorts. Ostensibly, they use […]
America’s ”New Evangelicals”: Emissaries for the Common Good
America’s ”New Evangelicals”: Emissaries for the Common Good By Marcia Pally Published in Die Welt, Oct. 19, 2010 In public discussion today, religion is a sorry sight, linked to fundamentalism, terrorism, and benighted threats to democracy. This is just what […]
Young Evangelicals in the Voting Booth
Young Evangelicals in the Voting Booth By Marcia Pally A look at how young evangelicals approach faith and politics today Busted Halo MAY 7, 2012 Politically speaking, what’s up with young evangelicals? Evangelicals are 26 percent of the U.S. population, a quarter […]
America’s Marketplace of Confessions: Evangelical Christianity’s Gift to Muslims
America’s Marketplace of Confessions: Evangelical Christianity’s Gift to Muslims By Marcia Pally In the thinking and reflection that I suppose inevitably comes with the tenth anniversary of the 2001 September 11th attacks, I found myself reviewing the research on the […]
Reduce Abortions–Realign US politics: New Evangelical ideas
Reduce Abortions–Realign US politics: New Evangelical ideas By Marcia Pally It’s political gospel that evangelicals are a solid Republican bloc because they vote only for candidates who oppose abortion. And on the whole, this is true–as they’ll likely again show […]
Evangelicals and the 2012 election: The kingdoms of faith and politics By Marcia Pally
Evangelicals and the 2012 election: The kingdoms of faith and politics By Marcia Pally We are now past the half-mark in the Republican primaries, and it seems that evangelicals are following tradition—or stereotype–as the religious voting-bloc outlier. Yet a look […]
Muslims, Evangelicals and the Countering of Prejudice
Muslims, Evangelicals and the countering of prejudice: A conversation with Prof. Marcia Pally and Prof. Mustapha Tlili, New York University By Chantal Bax, April 2012 Muslims and Evangelicals – one may not think that these two groups have much in […]