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Author Blanchard, Dallas A.

Title Religious violence and abortion : the Gideon Project / Dallas A. Blanchard and Terry J. Prewitt.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [1993]
©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 347 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-340) and index.
Summary On Christmas Day in 1984 three abortion clinics in Pensacola, Florida, were bombed by four young people who later went to trial and were convicted and sentenced. The authors explore this moral drama as a case study of religiously motivated political action. (The perpetrators identified with Gideon, the Old Testament slayer of those who sacrificed firstborn infants to Baal.) Their analysis sheds light on the violent wing of the anti-abortion movement. Placing anti-abortion violence in the context of social movement theory, the authors conclude that persons who are predisposed toward such behavior are likely to be working-class males under age 35, socially isolated from countervailing attitudes. Religious fundamentalists, they warn, will continue to utilize violence in reaction to such subjects as pornography, homosexuality, sex education, equality for females, and prayer in public schools. For this book the authors conducted interviews with local activists on both sides of the abortion issue. They attended the Pensacola trial and interviewed local religious fundamentalists, personnel of clinics throughout the United States that have been subjected to arson or bombing, and, when possible, persons who have been tried and convicted of those offenses.
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Subject Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Pro-life movement -- United States.
Pro-life movement.
United States.
Bombings -- Florida -- Pensacola -- Case studies.
Bombings.
Florida -- Pensacola.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author Prewitt, Terry J. (Terry James), 1945-
Other Form: Print version: Blanchard, Dallas A. Religious violence and abortion. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1993 0813011930 (DLC) 92039693 (OCoLC)27067483
ISBN 0813020654 (electronic book)
9780813020655 (electronic book)
0813011930 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0813011949 (paper ; alkaline paper)