Jabarkan Etimologi dari Perang budaya

Istilah perang budaya adalah terjemahan pinjaman (calque) dari Kulturkampf ('perjuangan budaya') Jerman.

Dalam bahasa Jerman, Kulturkampf mengacu pada bentrokan antara kelompok budaya dan agama dalam kampanye dari tahun 1871 hingga 1878 di bawah Kanselir Otto von Bismarck dari Kekaisaran Jerman melawan pengaruh Gereja Katolik Roma. Terjemahan tersebut dicetak di beberapa surat kabar Amerika pada saat itu.

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Fiorina, Morris P., with Samuel J. Abrams and Jeremy C. Pope, Culture War?: The Myth of a Polarized America (Longman, 2004)

Graff, Gerald. Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education (1992)

Hartman, Andrew. A war for the soul of America: a history of the culture wars (University of Chicago Press, 2015)

Hunter, James Davison, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (New York: Basic Books, 1992)

Jay, Gregory S., American Literature and the Culture Wars, (Cornell University Press, 1997)

Jensen, Richard. "The Culture Wars, 1965-1995: A Historian's Map" Journal of Social History 29 (Oct 1995) 17–37. in JSTOR

Jones, E. Michael, Degenerate Moderns: Modernity As Rationalized Sexual Misbehavior, Ft. Collins, CO: Ignatius Press, 1993

Strauss, William & Howe, Neil, The Fourth Turning, An American Prophecy: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous With Destiny, 1998, Broadway Books, New York

Thomson, Irene Tavis., Culture Wars and Enduring American Dilemmas, (University of Michigan Press, 2010)

Walsh, Andrew D., Religion, Economics, and Public Policy: Ironies, Tragedies, and Absurdities of the Contemporary Culture Wars, (Praeger, 2000)

Webb, Adam K., Beyond the Global Culture War, (Routledge, 2006)

Zimmerman, Jonathan, Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools (Harvard University Press, 2002)