Lyndon’s Granddaddy: Samuel Ealy Johnson Sr., Texas Populism, and the Improbable Roots of American Liberalism

Cantrell, Gregg

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“…With a passionate interest in the intellectual questions of the day, Johnson argued with friends and strangers about philosophy and theology, and took the stump for the Populist cause, including a bruising campaign as a People's Party candidate for the legislature in 1892. 69 Populism and faith converged in Texas in a myriad of combinations. Many Populists, like Biard and Johnson, embraced an expansive social Christianity.…”

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Murder on the Brazos: The Religious Context of the Populist Revolt

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2016

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In the 1880s and ‘90s, Waco, Texas, served as a trading center for the cotton districts of central Texas whose farmers gave rise to the Farmers’ Alliance and turned the region into a Populist hotbed. Waco was also known as the “City of Churches,” as it was the site of Baylor University and other efforts of evangelical churches to build up their institutions. What is less well known is that Waco and its rural environs were also hotbeds of religious heterodoxy. Waco's Iconoclast magazine became a lightning rod of conflict between the Baptists and their skeptical and liberal critics, a conflict that played out to a murderous conclusion. Historians have taken due note of the evangelical environment in which the Populist movement emerged in late nineteenth-century rural America. But in the process the notion of evangelical belief has been too often rendered static and total. The Baptist-Iconoclast conflict in Waco provides an entry point for a better understanding of the dynamic and conflicted nature of the religious context, and the influence of liberal and heterodox ideas within the communities that sustained the Populist cause.

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Murder on the Brazos: The Religious Context of the Populist Revolt

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2016

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Populism as a Concept and the Challenge of U.S. History

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, Jair Bolsonaro, was inaugurated as the president of Brazil, the world's fifth largest country by population. Promising to "rescue the family" and "our Judeo-Christian tradition," Bolsonaro has built a reputation for his vitriol against women, homosexuals, indigenous people, Afro-Brazilians, and a variety of "traitors" to the country. His motto is "Brazil above everything, God above all." With Bolsonaro's rise to power, Brazil has joined an expanding list of governments that have a common approach to politics. They each have their specific histories and trajectories, and some of them share more than others do; but they have built their political power by various combinations of ethno-cultural division, racial and gender bigotry, and political intolerance. Among such governments stand the administrations of Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party in India and Donald Trump's Republican Party in the United States, the second and third largest countries in the world respectively. Add to this list Poland, Israel, Hungary, Italy, the Philippines, Turkey, and elsewhere-along with kindred political parties across Europe and beyond-and it suggests that Bolsonaro's rise is part of a menacing global phenomenon (

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Lyndon’s Granddaddy: Samuel Ealy Johnson Sr., Texas Populism, and the Improbable Roots of American Liberalism

Cited by 2 publications

References 12 publications

Murder on the Brazos: The Religious Context of the Populist Revolt

Murder on the Brazos: The Religious Context of the Populist Revolt

Populism as a Concept and the Challenge of U.S. History

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