John W. Compton

The End of Empathy

Why White Protestants Stopped Loving Their Neighbors

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How did white evangelicals, a group that had once rallied national support for the federal minimum wage and progressive child labor laws, vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in 2016? In The End of Empathy, John W. Compton presents a nuanced portrait of the changing values of evangelical voters over the last century. To explain the rise of white Protestant social concern in the latter part of the nineteenth century and its sudden demise at the end of thetwentieth, Compton argues that religious conviction, by itself, is rarely sufficient to motivate empathetic political behavior. When believers do act empathetically-championing reforms that tr… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-006918-6
EAN: 9780190069186
Produktnummer: 32700701
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 416 S.
Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.6 cm x D3.5 cm 696 g
Gewicht: 696

Über den Autor

John W. Compton is Associate Professor of Political Science at Chapman University and the author of The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution.