Religion and politics beyond the culture wars : new directions in a divided America /
edited by Darren Dochuk.
- ix, 359 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 / "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 and 1970s / An American crusade : the religious liberty of Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union / God's spooks : religion, the CIA, and church-state collaboration / 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 / 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 ; James T. Kloppenberg. Part I. Spirits of reform. Part II. Redefining church, state, and civil society. Part III. Faith-based activism in an age of fracture.
"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." --
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Culture conflict--History--United States--20th century. Religion and politics--United States.