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Religion and politics beyond the culture wars new directions in a divided America /

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 contri...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Dochuk, Darren (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2021]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Spirits of reform
  • Who should lead the Christian workers?: fights for headship in church-labor solidarity, 1912-1919
  • American capitalism and agrarian spiritual dissent in the 1930s
  • "The answers were apocryphal!": Protestantism and the politics of pluralism in Phylon's early years
  • "The fulness of the earth is yours": environmental politics in the Mormon culture region
  • Part II. Redefining church, state, and civil society
  • "A gauge of our faithfulness": religion and the politics of immigration reform
  • "To liberate from the accident of family wealth": how liberals revived and revised the case for school vouchers in the 1960s
  • An American crusade: the religious liberty of Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union
  • God's spooks: religion, the CIA, and church-state collaboration
  • Part III. Faith-based activism in an age of fracture
  • Catholic women religious in an age of fracture
  • The occasional Catholics: faith, family, and the "Spanish-speaking" voter
  • The Camden 28: Fratres sororesque in Pace (Brothers and Sisters in Peace)
  • In defense of people: environmentalism and the religious right in late twentieth-century American politics
  • Looking up: Latino megachurches and the politics of social mobility
  • Progressive politics and religious faith.