A field guide to the culture wars [[electronic resource] ] : the battle over values from the campaign trail to the classroom / / Michael McGough
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| Autore: |
McGough Michael <1951->
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| Titolo: |
A field guide to the culture wars [[electronic resource] ] : the battle over values from the campaign trail to the classroom / / Michael McGough
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| Pubblicazione: | Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2008 |
| New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (164 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.0973 |
| 306.0973/090511 | |
| 306.0973090511 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Christianity and culture - United States |
| Christianity and politics - United States | |
| Culture conflict - Religious aspects | |
| Culture conflict - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Civilization 1970- |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-139) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Prologue: Wars and the rumors of wars -- Fighting faiths -- This I believe -- One nation -- Under God -- In the beginning -- Male and female He created them -- Whose life is it anyway? -- Opposing armies -- Field marshals -- Philosophers -- Financiers -- Battlegrounds -- Congress -- The campaign trail -- Courts -- Classroom -- Culture -- Church -- The field guide: resources. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Like any realignment in politics, the Democratic takeover of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections inspired a raft of instant analyses. One take on the results that is surely wrong is that the change in control of Congress and the spike in Democratic hopes for the 2008 presidential race mark an end to the culture wars that conventional wisdom blamed (or credited) for George W. Bush's re-election in 2004. This book sets the stage for a new consideration of the contemporary culture wars by examining their antecedents -from the Scopes trial to Prohibition to the controversy over the Supreme Cour |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A field guide to the culture wars |
| ISBN: | 979-84-00-65079-6 |
| 1-282-42072-0 | |
| 9786612420726 | |
| 0-313-35108-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778069203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Religion, politics, and public life.