Religion and Politics Beyond the Culture Wars (eBook, ePUB)

New Directions in a Divided America
Redaktion: Dochuk, Darren

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume reframes the narrative that has too often dominated the field of historical study of religion and politics: the culture wars.

Influenced by culture war theories first introduced in the 1990s, much of the recent history of modern American religion and politics is written in a mode that takes for granted the enduring partisan divides that can blind us to the complex and dynamic intersections of faith and politics. The contributors to Religion and Politics Beyond the Culture Wars argue that such narratives do not tell the whole story of religion and politics in the modern age.

This collection of essays, authored by leading scholars in American religious and political history, challenges readers to look past familiar clashes over social issues to appreciate the ways in which faith has fueled twentieth-century U.S. politics beyond predictable partisan divides and across a spectrum of debates ranging from environment to labor, immigration to civil rights, domestic legislation to foreign policy. Offering fresh illustrations drawn from a range of innovative primary sources, theories, and methods, these essays emphasize that our rendering of religion and politics in the twentieth century must appreciate the intersectionality of identities, interests, and motivations that transpire and exist outside an unbending dualistic paradigm.

Contributors: Darren Dochuk, Janine Giordano Drake, Joseph Kip Kosek, Josef Sorett, Patrick Q. Mason, Wendy L. Wall, Mark Brilliant, Andrew Preston, Matthew Avery Sutton, Kathleen Sprows Cummings, Benjamin Francis-Fallon, Michelle Nickerson, Keith Makoto Woodhouse, Kate Bowler, and James T. Kloppenberg.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780268201289
• Artikelnr.: 62732239

Autorenporträt

Darren Dochuk is the Andrew V. Tackes College Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He most recently authored Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America and is editor and co-editor of a number of books, including American Evangelicalism: George Marsden and the State of American Religious History (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Who Should Lead the Christian Workers? Fights for Headship in
Church-Labor Solidarity, 1912-1919 by Janine Giordano Drake
2. American Capitalism and Agrarian Spiritual Dissent in the 1930s by
Joseph (Kip) Kosek
3. "The Answers were Apocraphyl!": Protestantism and the Politics of
Pluralism in Phylon's Early Years by Josef Sorett
4. "The Fullness of the Earth is Yours": Environmental Politics in the
Mormon Culture Region by Patrick Mason
5. "A Gauge of Our Faithfulness": Religion and the Politics of Immigration
Reform by Wendy Wall
6. "To Liberate from the Accident of Family Wealth": How Liberals Revived
and Revised the Case for School Vouchers in the 1960s and 1970s by Mark
Brilliant
7. An American Crusade: The Religious Liberty of Jews in Russia and the
Soviet Union by Andrew Preston
8. God's Spooks: Religion, the CIA, and Church-State Collaboration by
Matthew Avery Sutton
9. Women Radical Religious in an Age of Fracture by Kathleen Sprows
Cummings
10. The Occasional Catholics: Faith, Family, and the "Spanish-Speaking"
Voter, 1969-1972 by Ben Francis-Fallon
11. The Camden 28: Fratres Sororesque in Pace (Brothers and Sisters in
Peace) by Michelle Nickerson
12. In Defense of People, In Defense of the Earth: Environmentalism and the
Religious Right in Late-Twentieth-Century American Politics by Keith Mako
Woodhouse
13. Looking Up: Latino Megachurches and the Politics of Social Mobility by
Kate Bowler   
14. Progressive Politics and Religious Faith by James T. Kloppenberg