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Subject(s)

• Evangelicalism—United States [Browse]
• Christianity and culture—United States [Browse]
• Christianity—Influence [Browse]
• United States—Church history—21st century [Browse]
• Museum of the Bible [Browse]
• Hobby Lobby (Firm) [Browse]
• Green family [Browse]

Author

• Baden, Joel S. [Browse]
• Baden, Joel S. [Browse]

• Baden, Joel S. [Browse]

Summary note

How the billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make America a "Bible nation"The Greens of Oklahoma City-the billionaire owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores-are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in an ambitious effort to increase the Bible's influence on American society. In Bible Nation, Candida Moss and Joel Baden provide the first in-depth investigative account of the Greens' sweeping Bible projects. Moss and Baden tell the story of the Greens' efforts to place a Bible curriculum in public schools; their rapid acquisition of an unparalleled collection of biblical antiquities; their creation of a closely controlled group of scholars to study and promote the collection; and their construction of a

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

Language note

In English.

Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Collection
• Chapter 2. The Green Scholars Initiative
• Chapter 3. Education
• Chapter 4. The Museum Of The Bible
• Conclusion
• Afterword
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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ISBN

0-691-19899-3

OCLC

1102468968

Doi

• 10.1515/9780691198996

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