John W. Compton is Associate Professor of Political Science at Chapman University and the author of The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution.

Compton seeks to explain support for Donald Trump among American Protestants, suggesting that the empathy religious voters had previously demon-strated for underprivileged groups had been compelled by mainline Protestant churches that, beginning in the 1960s, increasingly lost members to evangelical churches opposing government efforts to more equitably distribute wealth and political power.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Age of Stewardship 1. The Road to Armageddon2. The Brief Reign of Whirl3. The Churches Do Their Part Part II: Why the Center Held 4. The Battle for the Clergy5. Assaulting the Citadel6. Inventing the Old-Time Religion7. Last Hurrah: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Part III: From Revelation to Rationalization 8. Revolt in the Suburbs9. The Great Unraveling10. Enter the Family11. A Movement in Name Only Epilogue: White Protestants in the Age of Trump NotesIndex

John W. Compton is Associate Professor of Political Science at Chapman University and the author of The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution.

Compton seeks to explain support for Donald Trump among American Protestants, suggesting that the empathy religious voters had previously demon-strated for underprivileged groups had been compelled by mainline Protestant churches that, beginning in the 1960s, increasingly lost members to evangelical churches opposing government efforts to more equitably distribute wealth and political power.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Age of Stewardship 1. The Road to Armageddon2. The Brief Reign of Whirl3. The Churches Do Their Part Part II: Why the Center Held 4. The Battle for the Clergy5. Assaulting the Citadel6. Inventing the Old-Time Religion7. Last Hurrah: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Part III: From Revelation to Rationalization 8. Revolt in the Suburbs9. The Great Unraveling10. Enter the Family11. A Movement in Name Only Epilogue: White Protestants in the Age of Trump NotesIndex

John W. Compton is Associate Professor of Political Science at Chapman University and the author of The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution.

Compton seeks to explain support for Donald Trump among American Protestants, suggesting that the empathy religious voters had previously demon-strated for underprivileged groups had been compelled by mainline Protestant churches that, beginning in the 1960s, increasingly lost members to evangelical churches opposing government efforts to more equitably distribute wealth and political power.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Age of Stewardship 1. The Road to Armageddon2. The Brief Reign of Whirl3. The Churches Do Their Part Part II: Why the Center Held 4. The Battle for the Clergy5. Assaulting the Citadel6. Inventing the Old-Time Religion7. Last Hurrah: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Part III: From Revelation to Rationalization 8. Revolt in the Suburbs9. The Great Unraveling10. Enter the Family11. A Movement in Name Only Epilogue: White Protestants in the Age of Trump NotesIndex