Religion, Culture and Politics in the Twentieth-Century United States:

Anyone who seeks to understand the dynamics of culture and politics in the United States must grapple with the importance of religion in its many diverse and contentious manifestations. With conservative evangelicals forming the base of the Republican Party, racial-ethnic communities often organised...

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Main Author: Hulsether, Mark (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Series:BAAS Paperbacks : BAAS
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Summary:Anyone who seeks to understand the dynamics of culture and politics in the United States must grapple with the importance of religion in its many diverse and contentious manifestations. With conservative evangelicals forming the base of the Republican Party, racial-ethnic communities often organised along religious lines, and social-political movements on the left including major religious components, many of the country's key cultural-political debates are carried out through religious discourse. Thus it is misleading either to think of the US as a secular society in which religion is marginal, or to work with overly narrow understandings of religion which treat it as monolithically conservative or concerned primarily with otherworldly issues.In this volume, Mark Hulsether introduces the key players and offers a select group of case studies that explore how these players have interacted with major themes and events in US cultural history. Students in American Studies and Cultural Studies will appreciate how he frames his analysis using categories such as cultural hegemony, race and gender contestation, popular culture, and empire.Key FeaturesProvides a concise introduction to the fieldBalances a stress on religious diversity with attention to power conflicts within multiculturalismDramatizes the internal complexity and dynamism of religious communitiesBrings religious issues into the field of cultural studies, building bridges that can enable more informed and constructive discussion of religion in these fieldsProvides an integrated view of religion and its importance in recent US history
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (256 Seiten)
ISBN:9780748628247
DOI:10.1515/9780748628247

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