Religion and politics beyond the culture wars : new directions in a divided America / edited by Darren Dochuk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dochuk, Darren, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and politics--United States.

Religion and politics.

United States.

United States--Religion.

Religion.

Physical Description:

ix, 359 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2021]

Summary:

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. Contributors: Darren Dochuk, 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, and James T. Kloppenberg.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Spirits of Reform

1. Who Should Lead the Christian Workers?: Fights for Headship in Church-Labor Solidarity, 1912

1919 / Janine Giordano Drake

2. American Capitalism and Agrarian Spiritual Dissent in the 1930s / Joseph Kip Kosek

3. "The answers were apocryphal!": Protestantism and the Politics of Pluralism in Phylon's Early Years / Josef Sorett

4. "The fulness of the earth is yours": Environmental Politics in the Mormon Culture Region / Patrick Q. Mason

pt. II Redefining Church, State, and Civil Society

5. "A gauge of our faithfulness": Religion and the Politics of Immigration Reform / Wendy L. Wall

6. "To liberate from the accident of family wealth": How Liberals Revived and Revised the Case for School Vouchers in the 1960s and 1970s / Mark Brilliant

7. An American Crusade: The Religious Liberty of Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union / Andrew Preston

8. God's Spooks: Religion, the CIA, and Church-State Collaboration / Matthew Avery Sutton

pt. III Faith-Based Activism in an Age of Fracture

9. Catholic Women Religious in an Age of Fracture / Kathleen Sprows Cummings

10. The Occasional Catholics: Faith, Family, and the "Spanish-Speaking" Voter / Benjamin Francis-Fallon

11. The Camden 28: Fratres Sororesque in Pace (Brothers and Sisters in Peace) / Michelle Nickerson

12. In Defense of People: Environmentalism and the Religious Right in Late Twentieth-Century American Politics / Keith Makoto Woodhouse

13. Looking Up: Latino Megachurches and the Politics of Social Mobility / Kate Bowler

14. Progressive Politics and Religious Faith / James T. Kloppenberg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780268201296

0268201293

OCLC:

1237398061