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Book Review


The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. By Jeff Sharlet. (New York: HarperCollins, 2008. x, 454 pp. $25.95, ISBN 978-0-06-055979-3.)
Recent decades have produced considerable scholarship on evangelicalism, much of which laudably reminds audiences that the tradition is not a monoculture. Yet Jeff Sharlet's prodigiously researched text reminds us of conservatism's abiding power. The book does for conservative Christianity what Greil Marcus did for punk in Lipstick Traces (1989): it establishes connections between disparate phenomena, thereby enabling fresh thinking about religious conservatism. . . .
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