A Field Guide to the Culture Wars

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A Field Guide to the Culture Wars The Battle over Values from the Campaign Trail to the Classroom

Michael McGough

Book Code: C35107

ISBN: 0-313-35107-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-35107-5

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164 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 12/30/2008

List Price: $34.95 (UK Sterling Price: £19.95)

Availability: Not yet published. (Estimated publication date, 12/30/2008)

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Religion, Politics, and Public Life

Under the auspices of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College, Hartford, CT

Description: Like any realignment in politics, the Democratic takeover of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections inspired a raft of instant analyses. One "take" on the results that is surely wrong is that the change in control of Congress and the spike in Democratic hopes for the 2008 presidential race mark an end to the "culture wars" that conventional wisdom blamed (or credited) for George W. Bush's re-election in 2004. This book sets the stage for a new consideration of the contemporary culture wars by examining their antecedents -from the Scopes trial to Prohibition to the controversy over the Supreme Court's desegregation and school-prayer rulings to loyalty-oath battles of the 1950s to the pre- Roe v. Wade campaign to liberalize abortion laws. Even during times of supposed conformism, Americans have been presented with competing claims about what sort of culture this is and how and to what extent government should reflect, and police, values. The author covers such topics as same-sex marriage, stem cell research, intelligent design, and other hot button issues that are debated not just between the religious and secular, but more and more among the ranks of the religious themselves, where a religious "left" has emerged to counter arguments from the "religious right." Anyone interested in the intersection of religion and politics, in the rise of the so-called moral majority, and in the current state of affairs with regard to values and public life in America will gain a better understanding from reading this book.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: Wars and the Rumors of Wars
Section One: Fighting Faiths
Chapter 1. This I Believe
Chapter 2. One Nation
Chapter 3. Under God
Chapter 4. In the Beginning
Chapter 5. Male and Female He Created Them
Chapter 6. Whose Life is it Anyway?
Section Two: Opposing Armies
Chapter 7. Field Marshals
Chapter 8. Philosophers
Chapter 9. Financiers
Section Three: Battlegrounds
Chapter 10. Congress
Chapter 11. Campaign Trail
Chapter 12. Courts
Chapter 13. Classroom
Chapter 14. Culture
Chapter 15. Church
Section Four: The Field Guide

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