This work is a welcome addition to the growing literature on religion and US foreign policy.
Choice
To Bring the Good News to All Nations is a thoughtful, lucidly written study of how activist networks are built and exert influence at the nexus of international and domestic politics. The book adeptly treats conservative evangelicals and their beliefs with sensitivity even while still evaluating them critically, providing a model for other scholars interested in similar topics.
Passport
Lauren Frances Turek's 2020 study, To Bring the Good News to All Nations, provides the basis for a more complete and accurate assessment of the inspirations, aims, and achievements of the movement.
First Things
Well researched, insightful, and solidly documented, To Bring Good News to All Nations is a significant scholarly achievement.
International Journal of Frontier Missiology
[T]his volume, which is richly researched and well organized, is a timely and valuable contribution to existing studies on the American Christian Right.
Idées d'Amériques
Lauren Frances Turek's new book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on evangelical Christianity and U.S. foreing relations.
The Review of Faith & International Afffairs
Lauren Turek's To Bring the Good News to All Nations is a welcome contribution to the burgeoning subfield of the religious history of U.S. foreign relations, bringing to light the poorly understood contours of white U.S. evangelical engagement with U.S. foreign policy in the 1970s and 1980s. With impressively detailed and careful archival, textual, and other media-related research, Turek breaks clichés, unlocks impasses, and fills misleading silences in conventional narratives of the rise of the Religious Right.
Church History
Turek succeeds in demonstrating how powerful evangelical networks influenced U.S. foreign policy. The book provides an important analysis of the development of evangelical human rights that is becoming even more relevant as the inheritors of this tradition have taken charge of the State Department. Turek's analysis also suggests the ways that a globally-focused Cold War politics defined white U.S. evangelicalism.
Diplomatic History
Extensively researched and well-written, To Bring the Good News to All Nations makes a convincing case for the role of American evangelicals in international affairs. [T]he book is a wide-ranging work that greatly adds to our understanding of the role of religion in the last two decades of the Cold War.
Religion, State & Society
[The book] is a deeply researched, cogently argued, and utterly compelling study of conservative Protestant 'influence' on American foreign policy. Turek's work is an important reminder to historians of religion that state power, political economy, and international exchange are never absent from religion's work in the world.
Religion
Turek is careful to show that U.S. evangelicals were not mere promoters of American interests overseas. Neither did they always speak in one voice. Turek's book invites readers to take a critical look at the present and future of evangelical human rights advocacy.
The Review of Faith and International Affairs
