Author Monique El-Faizy visited New Canaan Society as part of her research for this newly-released book. Monique has combined her journalistic craft with her fundamentalist past to create an important, investigative treatise on the state of Christianity and its sociocultural implications.
From the publisher: A sweeping investigation into the culture and massive influence of evangelical Christianity, by a journalist raised in a fundamentalist Christian community.
In this important exploration of one of the most misunderstood phenomena of our day, former fundamentalist Christian Monique El-Faizy argues that evangelicals have become the new establishment, constituting over 40 percent of our population by some estimates. The 2004 Presidential election opened the eyes of many so-called blue state Americans to the reach of evangelical Christianity, yet much of the media and Hollywood still fail to understand the paradigm shift that has placed evangelicals in the American mainstream.
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