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008			111130s2012 nyu 001 0 eng
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020			_a9780230338951 (hardback)
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100	1		_aNiose, David.
245	1	0	_aNonbeliever nation : _bthe rise of secular Americans / _cDavid Niose.
260			_aNew York : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2012.
300			_a262 p. ; _c25 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_a"Today's culture wars are more heated than ever. Education, public policy, and the separation between church and state have become a battlefield, and many are frustrated with the success the Religious Right has had in shaping the national agenda, from putting the brakes on gay marriage in California to stripping textbooks in Texas of references to Thomas Jefferson. But today, a growing nonreligious minority, nearly 20 percent of Americans, are finally organizing and taking explicit political positions. In Nonbeliever Nation, David Niose argues that America was never in fact a Christian nation and shows how the Religious Right successfully took control of the social and political narrative. He takes us across the country to meet the secular groups now forming in opposition to that force--from humanist gatherings to the rise of the New Atheists to the explosion of secular groups on college and even high school campuses. Niose discusses their political goals, including lobbying efforts, legal strategies, and outreach through advertising and education, and what still needs to be done to make the secular voice a gamechanger in American politics"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aSecularism _zUnited States.
650		0	_aReligion and politics _zUnited States.
650		0	_aCulture conflict _zUnited States.
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