Religious right in the United States

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)

The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.
Find sources: "Religious right in the United States" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Some of this article's listed sources may not be reliable. Please help improve this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. Unreliable citations may be challenged and removed. (May 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

(Learn how and when to remove this message)

The words theoconservatism and theocon, portmanteaus of "theocracy" and "conservatism"/"conservative", generally occur as political labels referring to members of the Christian right, particularly those whose ideology represents a synthesis of elements of American conservatism, conservative Christianity, and social conservatism, expressed through political means. The term theocon first appeared in 1996 in an article in The New Republic entitled "Neocon v. Theocon" by Jacob Heilbrunn, where he wrote:

[T]he neoconservatives believe that America is special because it was founded on an idea—a commitment to the rights of man embodied in the Declaration of Independence—not in ethnic or religious affiliations. The theocons, too, argue that America is rooted in an idea, but they believe that idea is Christianity.^{[citation needed]}

Mainstream media have used the terms to identify religious conservatives. Andrew Sullivan, blogger at The Atlantic, has commonly used the concept,^[1] as have political cartoonists Cox & Forkum in reference to former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris.^[2]

Notable people

References

^ E.g. "Benedict’s Radical Precedent". 18 February 2013.
^ Cox and Forkum cartoon calling U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris a theocon

v t e Christianity and politics
Christian left Christian right
Key concepts	Separation of church and state "Render unto Caesar" Two kingdoms doctrine Freedom of religion
Movements	Christian anarchism Christian democracy Clerical fascism Distributism Evangelical left Christian feminism Christian libertarianism Libertarian Christianity Christianism National Catholicism Christian pacifism Political Catholicism Christian reconstructionism Theoconservatism Paleoconservatism Integrism Christian corporatism Christian socialism Christian communism Theodemocracy Christian Zionism Christofascism Christian nationalism Christian Patriot movement Christian realism Identity Christianity Political influence of Evangelicalism in Latin America Liberal Catholicism
Issues	Abortion Homosexuality Poverty and wealth Christianity and environmentalism
Theology	Catholic social teaching Dominion theology Liberation theology Political theology China Korea Middle East Sub-Saharan Africa Social Gospel Prosperity gospel Symphonia Radical orthodoxy Integral mission
Christian state	Caesaropapism Christian republic Divine right of kings
Related topics	Christian views on genetically modified foods Christianity and other religions Civil religion State religion Theocracy Dallas Statement

Religion in politics

General concepts

Christianity and politics

Islam and politics

Judaism and politics
Halachic state Jewish anarchism Jewish anti-Zionism Haredim Jewish Autonomism Jewish democracy Jewish fascism Kahanism Revisionist Maximalism Jewish feminism Jewish law Jewish left Jewish pacifism Jewish political movements Jewish right Jewish secularism Jewish socialism Bundism Poale Zion Zionism Religious World Agudath Israel

Hinduism and politics
Akhand Bharat Hindu feminism Gandhism Hindu law Hindu modernism Hindu nationalism Hindutva Hindu Rashtra Panun Kashmir Bangabhumi Hindu revolution Hindu revivalism Hindu environmentalism Integral humanism Indigenous Aryans Rama Rajya Saffronisation Shuddhi Uniform civil code

Buddhism and politics
Buddhist anti-communism Buddhist feminism Buddhist law Buddhist modernism Buddhist nationalism 969 Movement Nichirenism Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism Buddhist socialism Engaged Buddhism Humanistic Buddhism Secular Buddhism

Other
American civil religion Disestablishmentarianism Imperial cult Ancient Rome Gottgläubig Khalistan movement Neopaganist feminism Religious aspects of Nazism Creativity (religion) Cult of personality State Shinto

Religious right in the United States

Notable people

See also

References

Further reading