“Faith Based presents a penetrating analysis of the ‘fusion project’ forged between the Religious Right and the true believers of free-market economics. Focusing on the contested field of social welfare policy, Hackworth takes us inside this sometimes unhappy but nevertheless consequential marriage, where rupture always seems more likely than rapture.”—Jamie Peck, author of Constructions of Neoliberal Reason
“Hackworth’s study begins to remedy the absence of attention to religion within the critical scholarship on neoliberalism, and it will push this literature in a new and much-needed direction. Faith Based is very accessible and interesting, and it moves along nicely. It’s a great book.”—Jason Dittmer, author of Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity
“Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the U.S. offering case studies of gospel rescue missions, religious charities in action in post-Katrina New Orleans, and more. . . . The result is a fine guide that discusses coalition building on the right as it relates to faith-based alternatives to welfare: a fine pick for any spirituality collection.”— Midwest Book Review
“This insightful book explains the partial fusion of religious conservatism and libertarian economies in the US. . . . [It] will be valuable for research libraries, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduate students interested in religion and politics, social welfare, and nonprofit organizations.”—D. B. Robertson, Choice
“This is an interesting study of the interplay of religion, economics and politics.”—Al Menendez, Journal of Americans for Religious Liberty
“At once a critical history of the more conservative arm of the contemporary Right; a penetrating sociopolitical analysis of the party’s dismantling of social programs, particularly welfare; and a theoretical exploration of the ramifications thereof, Jason Hackworth’s study is a timely and welcome addition to the crowded field of political tomes. . . . For those seeking to develop a more sophisticated engagement with an at times puzzling ideology, Faith Based is a necessary introduction.”—Emily Wojcik, Plop!
“Faith Based is a welcome exploration of the complexities and tensions within the economic and social strains of the American right.”—David K. Ryden, Political Science Quarterly
"Faith Based contributes a critical exploration of odd evangelical alliances with secular neoliberal political economic ideologies in the United States. Arguing that academic neoliberal theories rarely thrive without parasitic attachment to ideologically driven groups, Hackworth demonstrates that religious neoliberalism, an evangelical parroting of neoliberal tropes, is composed of a fraught relationship between secular politicians and religious practitioners."—Justin K. H. Tse, AAG Review of Books
