‘The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics’

The Goodspeed Lecture welcomes Andrew Lewis, assistant professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati, presenting “The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars.” Lewis researches the intersection of politics, religion, and law in America, with an expertise in Evangelicals and politics, church-state relations, conservative legal activism, and rights politics and his research engages with the themes of representation and American constitutionalism, through a variety of lenses.

Lewis’ book “The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars” documents the rise of rights politics within conservative Christian politics and the important role that the pro-life movement has played in that process.