Title: The second coming of Paisley
Description: The Second Coming of Paisley is the first book to examine the relationship between the Reverend Ian Paisley and leaders of the militant wing of evangelical fundamentalism in the United States. Jordan convincingly demonstrates that it was exposure to the ideas and principles of leaders of the Christian right such as Carl McIntire and Billy James Hargis that enabled Paisley to develop a militant brand of politicized religious fundamentalism that he used with remarkable success to block the advance of civil rights for Northern Ireland's Catholic population. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Jordan establishes a framework for understanding the extraordinary force with which Reverend Paisley used a religious culture imported from the United States to affect a radical shake-up of religion and politics in Northern Ireland. - Publisher.
Subjects: Northern ireland, politics and government, Christianity and politics, Presbyterian church, Free presbyterian church of ulster, Modernist-fundamentalist controversy, Paisley, ian r. k., 1926-2014, Great britain, church history, Church history, Politics and government