pt. III. Faith-based activism in an age of fracture. Progressive politics and religious faith / James T. Kloppenberg. American capitalism and agrarian spiritual dissent in the 1930s / Joseph Kip Kosek -- "The answers were apocryphal!" : Protestantism and the politics of pluralism in Phylon's early years / Josef Sorett -- "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. "A gauge of our faithfulness" : religion and the politics of immigration reform / Wendy L. Wall -- "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 -- An American crusade : the religious liberty of Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union / Andrew Preston -- God's spooks : religion, the CIA, and church-state collaboration / Matthew Avery Sutton -- pt. III. Faith-based activism in an age of fracture. Catholic women religious in an age of fracture / Kathleen Sprows Cummings -- The occasional Catholics : faith, family, and the "Spanish-speaking" voter / Benjamin Francis-Fallon -- The Camden 28 : fratres sororesque in pace (brothers and sisters in peace) / Michelle Nickerson -- In defense of people : environmentalism and the religious right in late twentieth-century American politics / Keith Makoto Woodhouse -- Looking up : Latino megachurches and the politics of social mobility / Kate Bowler -- Progressive politics and religious faith / James T. Kloppenberg.
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." -- Publisher, page four of cover.
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