Religion, culture, and politics in the twentieth-century United States
By: Mark Hulsether.
Contributors: British Association for American Studies.
Series: BAAS paperbacks
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780748613021
Subjects: United States -- Religion
Description: Anyone who seeks to understand the dynamics of culture and politics in the United States must grapple with the importance of religion in its many diverse and contentious manifestations. With conservative evangelicals forming the base of the Republican Party, racial-ethnic communities often organised along religious lines, and social-political movements on the left including major religious components, many of the countrys key cultural-political debates are carried out through religious discourse. Thus it is misleading either to think of the US as a secular society in which religion is margina.
Notes: Published in association with the British Association for American Studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.