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  • Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right

    by Seth Dowland ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    During the last three decades of the twentieth century, evangelical leaders and conservative politicians developed a political agenda that thrust "family values" onto the nation's consciousness. Ministers, legislators, and laypeople came together to fight abortion, gay rights, and major feminist objectives. They supported private Christian schools, home schooling, and a strong military. Family ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right

    by Seth Dowland ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    During the last three decades of the twentieth century, evangelical leaders and conservative politicians developed a political agenda that thrust "family values" onto the nation's consciousness. Ministers, legislators, and laypeople came together to fight abortion, gay rights, and major feminist objectives. They supported private Christian schools, home schooling, and a strong military. Family ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Southern Masculinity

    Perspectives on Manhood in the South since Reconstruction

    by Benjamin Wise, Christopher Breu, Edward Blum, John Howard, Joseph Creech, Karen Taylor, Kris DuRocher, Matthew Barbee, Rose Stremlau, Seth Dowland, Steve Blankenship ...
    The follow-up to the critically acclaimed collection Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South (Georgia, 2004), Southern Masculinity explores the contours of southern male identity from Reconstruction to the present. Twelve case studies document the changing definitions of southern masculine identity as understood in conjunction with identities based on race, gender, age, ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • Stony the Road

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  • Attack of the Theocrats

    How the Religious Right Harms Us All—and What We Can Do about It

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    At no time in history has the United States had such a high percentage of theocratic members of Congress—those who expressly endorse religious bias in law. Just as ominously, especially for those who share the values and views of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, at no other time have religious fundamentalists effectively had veto power over one of the country's two major political parties. As ... Read more

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  • The Evangelicals

    The Struggle to Shape America

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    * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award* National Book Award Finalist* Time magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year* New York Times Notable Book“We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided it” (The New York Times Book Review).Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Frances FitzGeral... ... Read more

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  • Christians Against Christianity

    How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith

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  • The Making of Black Lives Matter

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  • The Flag and the Cross

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