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The United States: A Legal Framing
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Omar G Encarnación
Published: 01 April 2025
... the Christian right’s opposition to gay marriage. gay marriage culture war marriage equality homosexuality gay rights Spain Brazil United States As reported by New York’s Daily News , the going out of business party for Freedom to Marry—the first organization created specifically...
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Harlequin Napoleon; or, What Literature Isn’t
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David Francis Taylor
Published: 19 June 2018
... military conflict the vocabulary of a longstanding culture war whereby the highly charged and always renewed binaries of high–low, literature–entertainment, and elite–popular become a means of comprehending the military and political confrontation between Britain and Napoleonic France. Moreover, images...
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Turning Off Turn-On: Helms as a TV Executive in the 1960s
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Bryan Hardin Thrift
Published: 28 January 2014
... his ability to shape what was broadcast. While pessimistic about conservative efforts to stem the flow of cultural change, he expected unease over change to open doors for conservatives. On WRAL-TV he fired some of the first shots in the culture war. The Jack Paar Show TV program Minow Newton...
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Mr. Jefferson’s University
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Rodney A. Smolla
Published: 15 May 2020
... accomplishments. Yet there was also a darker side to Jefferson's legacy. Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” yet he owned slaves and even took one as his mistress. This chapter also provides a background on UVA's contemporary culture-war campus politics...
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Published: 15 June 2020
...This chapter explains the culture war being waged by the federal government against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It describes how Mormons were typically characterized as representatives of systems and practices that were quintessentially un-American or even anti-American...
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Published: 11 January 2006
... traditionalism in the religious sphere, evangelism, and sin and secularization. It then discusses some of the issues involved in the culture war that have an explicitly religious basis, including abortion and faith-based initiatives. Catholic Church American identity and cultural unity religion and Luther...
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The Future of Substantive Due Process
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James E. Fleming
Published: 30 August 2022
... Barry Obama Barack counterrevolutionary conservatism culture war federalism federalism juristocracy originalism overruling precedents preservative conservatism Lochner errors legitimacy of the Roberts Court The practice of substantive due process is seriously vulnerable now, due to recent...
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Pop Culture Warriors: Right-Wing Entertainment Journalism and the Fight against “Big Hollywood”
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Joel Penney
Published: 22 September 2022
...This chapter examines how journalists working for conservative news outlets use pop culture coverage as a weapon in a broader “culture war” that attacks the perceived dominance of left-wing ideology throughout US society. Right-wing commentators see themselves as fighting back against Hollywood’s...
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Pop Culture, Politics, and the News: Entertainment Journalism in the Polarized Media Landscape
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Joel Penney
Published online: 22 September 2022
Published in print: 19 October 2022
.... Chapter 3 shifts focus to how journalists working for conservative news outlets use pop culture coverage as a weapon in a broader culture war that attacks the perceived dominance of left- wing ideology throughout US society. In contrast to the frames of social progress and industry accountability...
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The Imperatives of Race Consciousness in 21st-Century Shakespearean Performance
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Farah Karim-Cooper
Published: 23 January 2024
... casting race neutrality culture war erasure theatre performance What does it mean to be race conscious today? When it comes to the Shakespearean theatre in the twenty-first century, it means dismantling practices that are grounded in neutrality. In this regard ‘colour blind’ casting, still largely...
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Christianity and Law in North America Today
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Nathan S. Chapman
Published: 20 November 2023
.... A variety of forms of Christianity continue to influence the policy goals of both major parties; Christianity has both shaped and been shaped by partisan polarization and culture wars over family, race, and education. In Mexico, liberalism has long meant government control of the Catholic Church. Though...
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Published: 10 May 2023
... difference bridging social capital Lichterman Paul dignity multicultural evangelicalism ethical democracy social reflexivity reflexive evangelicalism common goods pragmatism postsecularism pluralism agonism culture war The title of this book contains a number of deceptively familiar terms whose...
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Doing Sports God’s Way
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Paul Emory Putz
Published: 09 August 2024
... to run rampant in our nation.” 138 His words ignited a firestorm that played out along culture war lines, with liberals denouncing his intolerance in mainstream news outlets and calling for Campbell’s Soup and Nike to drop him from endorsement deals, while conservatives rallied to his support with an ad...
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Religious Cultures and Confessional Politics
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Todd H. Weir and Udi Greenberg
Published: 14 April 2021
... confession culture education Judaism milieus politics public religion autonomy Centre Party Zentrum Christian Democracy clubs and societies Counter Reformation culture wars democracy discrimination intermarriage Lutheran Church marriage minority ies National Socialism parties Protestant...
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Published: 01 January 2009
...This chapter discusses how Catholics, Evangelicals, feminists, and other non-Buddhists have rhetorically appropriated mizuko kuyō in the various battles of the American cultural wars, especially abortion. Pro-life advocates have actively disseminated information about...
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Migration
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Crawford Gribben
Published: 22 April 2021
... Northwest recognize that they have lost the culture war—despite or sometimes even because of the election of Donald Trump—and that another kind of conflict is beginning. “American Redoubt” Christ Church Moscow migration Moscow Idaho race Rawles James Wesley survivalism Wilson Douglas Judaism Law...
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Good News for Common Goods: Multicultural Evangelicalism and Ethical Democracy in America
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Wes Markofski
Published online: 18 May 2023
Published in print: 10 May 2023
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Published online: 21 February 2013
Published in print: 15 October 2010
..., the book discovers that for many people opinion on the issue closely relates to their feelings about abortion, but it also finds a shared moral language that offers a way around the unproductive polarization of the abortion debate and other culture-war concerns....
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Published: 02 April 2012
... inherently political, but in the case of Hollywood, this culture war was transformed into a matter of domestic security by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Indeed, Hollywood served as one of the first ideological battlegrounds of the Cold War. HUAC hearings 1951–1953 Korean War McCarran Pat McCarthyism McCarthy...
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From the Scopes Trial to Darwin on Trial
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Edward Caudill
Published: 01 November 2013
.... It then considers the growth of religion, and religiosity in general, during the 1950s and 1960s, highlighted by the emergence of televangelists led by Billy Graham, and the “culture war” of the 1980s and 1990s. It also analyzes the book The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications ...