Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite

Based on interviews with 360 leaders in government, academia, the entertainment business, and the business world, Lindsay’s study looks at the rise of evangelicals and their Christian influence. A New York Observer reviewer called the book “a provocative study” but criticized the author’s accepting “unquestioningly the movement leaders’ self-interested pronouncements.” Lindsay is an assistant professor of sociology at Rice University.