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Religion and Politics Beyond the Culture Wars
This volume reframes the narrative that has too often
dominated the field of historical study of religion and politics:
the culture wars.
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.
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American Evangelicalism : George Marsden and the state of American religious history
No living scholar has shaped the study of American religious history more profoundly than George M. Marsden. His work spans U.S. intellectual, cultural, and religious history from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. This collection of essays uses the career of George M. Marsden and the remarkable breadth of his scholarship to measure current trends in the historical study of American evangelical Protestantism and to encourage fresh scholarly investigation of this faith tradition as it has developed between the eighteenth century and the present. Moving through five sections, each centered around one of Marsden’s major books and the time period it represents, the volume explores different methodologies and approaches to the history of evangelicalism and American religion.
Besides assessing Marsden’s illustrious works on their own terms, this collection’s contributors isolate several key themes as deserving of fresh, rigorous, and extensive examination. Through their close investigation of these particular themes, they expand the range of characters and communities, issues and ideas, and contingencies that can and should be accounted for in our historical texts. Marsden’s timeless scholarship thus serves as a launchpad for new directions in our rendering of the American religious past.
“ American Evangelicalism is a grandly conceived and skillfully executed festschrift in honor of George M. Marsden. The affection and regard for Marsden from his colleagues and former students shine through one essay after another. As a major historian of American evangelicalism whose temporal range spans from the colonial era well into the twenty-first century, Marsden very much deserves this impressive tribute.” — Leigh Eric Schmidt, Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis
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