Credo: Primary Sources in Academic Core: Religion

From The Religious Right: A Reference Handbook
Two criteria were used to select the following primary documents and quotations. First, selections are included dealing with issues that throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first have drawn the attention of conservative Christians. Such issues as abortion, restricting prayer in the public schools, the teaching of the theory of evolution, and the call for same-gender marriage have appalled many fundamentalist Christians and energized them to political action.

From The Religious Right: A Reference Handbook
Characteristic of interest group politics in a pluralistic society, the religious right has not gone unchallenged. Therefore, in addition to documents representative of religious right positions, we have included responses from those providing analyses of, and critical commentary on, religious right beliefs, activities, and leaders.