Conserving the American dream
Subtitle: faith and politics in the U.S. heartland
By: Erik Nilsson
Series: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm studies in social anthropology -- n.s. 7; Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis -- new ser., 7.
Publisher: Stockholm University
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9789187235030
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Conservatism; Church and state; Politics and government; Political science
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Conservatism in America.; title: Between oxymoron and truism;; title: The liberal consensus and "Liberal conservatism";; title: Conservatism as an ongoing pattern;; title: Hierarchy and "Democratic feudalism" ;; title: The new right : five trajectories;; title: Burke in America;; title: The "Southern strategy" and beyond;; title: The Neocons;; title: The new Christian right;; title: Working-class conservatism ;; title: Concluding remarks --; title: Doing Democracy.; title: Among the experts;; title: The ORP candidate training seminar;; title: "Voter chimpology" ;; title: Mapping democracy;; title: Avoidance;; title: Geography;; title: Representation ;; title: Paradoxes of democracy;; title: Wollheim's paradox;; title: Postponed compromises --; title: "Liberals hate it!".; title: The liberal;; title: The culture war thesis and its critics;; title: Polarization as a project;; title: Reproduction, formation ;; title: Political becoming;; title: Narrative work;; title: Politics in a contrarian mode ;; title: Concluding remarks --; title: Political attachments.; title: War;; title: Supporting the troops;; title: Media slant and counter-slant;; title: "War is nasty business-get over it";; title: To believe in a "Scary, scary cowboy" ;; title: Market;; title: Clinging to myth;; title: The preferred path to socialism;; title: Necessary illusions ;; title: God;; title: Frank's wager;; title: Narrating transformation;; title: The problem of certainty;; title: Faith in a secular age;; title: Trust heuristics;; title: Concluding remarks : coexistence --; title: Conclusion : to believe (in something).; title: Being opinionated ;; title: The unconditionality of belief ;; title: Politics, fidelity, truth ;; title: Fidelity as an anthropological problem ;; title: Genuine problems and conversational analytics ---- References-- Index.