The correct answers are B) the red scare and C) the advent of television.
The two things that keyed the growth of religion in the 1950s were the red scare and the advent of television.
In the 1950s, religion gained popularity in American people due to different reasons, mainly by the Red Scare and the Communist menace, and the opportunity to spread religious ideas through the new mass media outlet, television.
The Red Scare was the government prosecution of people considered Communist or that supported Communism in the United States. The nation was unified around the idea that Communist was something bad for America and could never happen. The other factor that helped the growth of religion in the 1950s was the advent of television in that some preachers that had been successful with their radio programs, began to use television with a lot of success and gaining new audiences. For instance, there is the case of Pentecostal minister Rex Humbard, the first Christian-Evangelist to host a television show called “Cathedral of Tomorrow”.
