Abstract

One of the most frightening developments of the 1980s has been the reemergence of fundamentalist religion in the United States as the keystone of right wing politics. “Born-again” military strategists boast about their willingness to incinerate the world in nuclear war rather than tolerate the spread of “atheistic communism.” “Christian” senators oppose the Equal Rights Amendment on the grounds that it undermines the family and deprives men of their “right” to come home from work to a fresh martini, a cooked dinner, and a cheerful and compliant wife. And an array of electronic evangelists fill the air waves with relendess exhortations attributing all of America's problems to the Soviet Union or to the “sins” of recent movements for racial, social, and sexual emancipation.