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04491aam a2200553 i 4500 001 EBFC2AAAB05F11EA86A2D96D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200617010021 008 190617s2019 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019025148 020 $a 0231193637 020 $a 9780231193634 020 $a 0231193629 020 $a 9780231193627 035 $a (OCoLC)1091248064 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d YDX $d LNT $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a BR1615 $b .R65 2019 082 00 $a 306.6/773082 $2 23 100 1 $a Rolsky, L. Benjamin, $e author. 245 14 $a The rise and fall of the religious left : $b politics, television, and popular culture in the 1970s and beyond / $c L. Benjamin Rolsky. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xiii, 255 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Columbia series on religion and politics 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Religious Liberalism, American Politics, and Public Life -- Norman Lear, the Christian Right, and the Spiritual Politics of the Religious Left -- All in the Family and the Spiritual Politicization of the American Sitcom -- Norman Lear, the FCC, and the Holy War Over American Television -- People for the American Way and Spiritual Politics in Late Twentieth-Century America -- Liberalism as Variety Show: I Love Liberty and the Decline of the Religious Left -- Conclusion: Religion, Politics, and the Public Square-2019. 520 $a "For decades now, Americans have believed that their country is deeply divided by "culture wars" waged between religious conservatives and secular liberals. In most instances, Protestant conservatives have been cast as the instigators of such warfare, while religious liberals have been largely ignored. In this book, L. Benjamin Rolsky examines the ways in which American liberalism has helped shape cultural conflict since the 1970s through the story of how television writer and producer Norman Lear galvanized the religious left into action. The creator of comedies such as All in the Family and Maude, Lear was spurred to found the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way in response to the rise of the religious right. Rolsky offers engaged readings of Lear's iconic sitcoms and published writings, considering them as an expression of what he calls the spiritual politics of the religious left. He shows how prime-time television became a focus of political dispute and demonstrates how Lear's emergence as an interfaith activist catalyzed ecumenical Protestants, Catholics, and Jews who were determined to push back against conservatism's ascent. Rolsky concludes that Lear's political involvement exemplified religious liberals' commitment to engaging politics on explicitly moral grounds in defense of what they saw as the public interest. An interdisciplinary analysis of the definitive cultural clashes of our fractious times, The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left foregrounds the foundational roles played by popular culture, television, and media in America's religious history"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Lear, Norman $x Influence. 600 17 $a Lear, Norman. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00020464 650 0 $a Liberalism $x Christianity. $x Christianity. 650 0 $a Liberalism (Religion) $z United States. 650 0 $a Popular culture $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Popular culture $x Christianity. $x Christianity. 650 0 $a Religious right. 650 7 $a Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00972484 650 7 $a Liberalism (Religion) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00997200 650 7 $a Liberalism $x Christianity. $x Christianity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00997196 650 7 $a Popular culture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01071344 650 7 $a Popular culture $x Christianity. $x Christianity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01071382 650 7 $a Religious right. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01094311 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Rolsky, L. Benjamin, $t The rise and fall of the religious left $d New York : Columbia University Press, 2019. $z 9780231550420 $w (DLC) 2019025149 830 0 $a Columbia series on religion and politics. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317013251.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EBFC2AAAB05F11EA86A2D96D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search