TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turek,Lauren Frances
TI  - To bring the good news to all nations: evangelical influence on human rights and U.S. foreign relations 
T2  - The United States in the world
SN  - 9781501748912
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Christianity and international relations
KW  - United States
KW  - Evangelicalism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Influence
KW  - Christianity and politics
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Foreign relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : defining and defending rights -- A global shift in missionary Christianity -- The communications revolution and evangelical internationalism -- Religious freedom and the new evangelical foreign policy lobby -- Fighting religious persecution behind the Iron Curtain -- Supporting a "Brother in Christ" in Guatemala -- The challenge of South African Apartheid -- Conclusion : Evangelical foreign policy activism ascendant
N2  - "This book examines the growth and influence of evangelical Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assessing the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes and to impose economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that persecuted Christians and stifled evangelism"--
ER  -