The resurgence of christian faith in the united states during the 1970s and 1980s has been labeled by historians as the

Religious Right or the New Right--this movement was a religious and socially conservative movement.

This movement was made of many groups including the Moral Majority which was aimed specifically at political issues such as abortion. This movement was a revival of Christian fundamentalism as seen in the 1920s and televangelical leaders using television to spread their message of conservativism.