Politics, religion, and culture in an anxious age
By: by John Buell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780230117723
Subjects: Politics and government; Religion and politics; Political culture; Rhetoric
Description: American politics is increasingly driven by apocalyptic rhetoric. Highlighting possible adverse consequences of such politics for our freedom and quality of life, this book suggests alternative policy agendas, religious, and philosophical discourses, cultural framing and modes of daily living in an effort to defuse what it takes to be a divisive politics that paradoxically increases the very risks it highlights.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-196) and index.