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| 050 | 00 | $aE169.12$b.C77 1997 |
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| 245 | 00 | $aCultural wars in American politics :$bcritical reviews of a popular myth /$cRhys H. Williams, editor. |
| 264 | _1 | $aNew York :$bAldine de Gruyter,$c[1997] |
| 264 | _4 | $c©1997 |
| 300 | $axii, 299 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm. | |
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| 338 | $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier | |
| 490 | 1_ | $aSocial problems and social issues |
| 504 | $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | |
| 505 | 0_ | $a1. Introduction / Rhys H. Williams -- 2. What American Culture War? A View from the Trenches as Opposed to the Command Posts and the Press Corps / N. J. Demerath III and Yonghe Yang -- 3. A War for America's Soul? The American Religious Landscape / Nancy J. Davis and Robert V. Robinson -- 4. Have Americans' Social Attitudes Become More Polarized? / Paul DiMaggio, John Evans and Bethany Bryson -- 5. Religious Affiliation, Commitment, and Ideology among U.S. Elites / Timothy Shortell -- 6. Culture Wars? Insights from Ethnographies of Two Protestant Seminaries / Jackson W. Carroll and Penny Long Marler -- 7. Culture Wars and the Party System: Religion and Realignment, 1972-1993 / Ted G. Jelen -- 8. Civility or the Culture Wars in Politics and Religion: Case Study of Oliver North in Virginia / Margaret S. Hrezo and Melinda Bollar Wagner -- 9. The Myth of Culture Wars: The Case of American Protestantism / Christian Smith, Michael Emerson and Sally Gallagher -- 10. Lambs among the Lions: America's Culture Wars in Cross-Cultural Perspective / N. J. Demerath III and Karen S. Straight -- 11. Religion, Ideology, and Electoral Politics / Gerald M. Platt and Rhys H. Williams -- 12. Dimensions of Cultural Tension among the American Public / Daniel V. A. Olson -- 13. Culture Wars(?): Remapping the Battleground / Fred Kniss -- Culture Wars, Social Movements, and Institutional Politics / Rhys H. Williams. |
| 520 | 1_ | $a"That contemporary American politics is divided into two differing ideological, moral, and lifestyle groups - a divide so severe as to constitute a "cultural war" - is a widely-held popular belief." "The most systematic academic version of the culture wars claim has appeared in two influential books by sociologist James Davison Hunter, the earlier dating from 1991. Hunter's formulation of the myth serves the contributors to this volume as a point of departure. They add more measured analyses to the rhetorical overstatement in Hunter's claim, assessing its accuracy with a broad range of evidence based on individual attitudes, subcultural values, political party dynamics, and culture-wide ideological currents. On every level of analysis, the contributors find that Hunter's bipolar axis obscures the variety of ways in which culture actually functions in current politics. That variety receives the nuanced treatment it deserves in this collection." "Examining the full range of sources of cultural politics and offering competing models for understanding the current ideological landscape, this volume will be useful in a variety of classroom and seminar settings, from political sociology and social movements to contemporary American culture and the sociology of religion."--BOOK JACKET. |
| 650 | _0 | $aCulture conflict$zUnited States. |
| 650 | _0 | $aPolitics and culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century. |
| 650 | _0 | $aChristianity and politics$xProtestant churches. |
| 650 | _0 | $aProtestants$zUnited States$xPolitical activity. |
| 651 | _0 | $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1970- |
| 651 | _0 | $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1989- |
| 700 | 1_ | $aWilliams, Rhys H. |
| 830 | _0 | $aSocial problems and social issues. |
| 971 | $aRhys H. Williams is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.$9LOCAL | |
| 997 | $aMARCIVE | |