Arrangement

The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, NUPI, takes pleasure in inviting you to a seminar:

The Role of the Religious Right in U.S. Politics
The Religious Right has been a force to reckon with in American presidential politics since Ronald Reagan and Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority entered into a political marriage in 1980.

In this year’s Republican primaries, former Senator Rick Santorum from Pennsylvania rose to unlikely heights on the backs of the conservative movement. We discuss this  important aspect of U.S. politics before a session of Q&A.

Program 13:00-15:00. 

• A post-mortem over Santorum’s reach for the starsHilde Restad, Senior Research Fellow, NUPI
• The role of evangelical expert culture in American politicsRandall Stephens, Fulbright Roving Scholar
• Focus on the Family - generational shifts within the evangelical movementHilde Løvdal Ph.D.Scholar at ILOS, University of Oslo