... not get very far due to his relative lack of name recognition. Televangelist Pat Robertson, however, made a surprise impact, mobilizing social conservatives to finish a shocking second in Iowa, demonstrating the growing importance of the religious right to the modern GOP. And Donald Trump made a cameo...

...-authoritarianism, and moralism of the evangelical Right, progressives found themselves confronting a transnational front of conservatism that stretched from Jimmy Swaggart and Pat Robertson to Brazil’s own televangelists and to the halls of dictatorial power. Aconteceu no Mundo Evangélico Fanini Nilson do Amaral...

...” of Christian marriages. Alongside Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell, Bright was one of the most influential evangelical power brokers of the late twentieth century, able to mobilize large coalitions of conservative Christians for both evangelistic and partisan ends. Bright William...

... mortality, starting with treatment for prostate cancer in 1993. In 2000, beginning to lose his energy, Bright was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable disease that slowly diminishes lung capacity. Unlike Billy Graham, Pat Robertson, and Oral Roberts, he did not groom one of his sons as his...