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J AMES DAVISON HUNTER
- J AMES DAVISON HUNTER, an American sociologist, popularised the term “culture wars” in his book of the same name (its subtitle was “The Struggle to Define America”). It appeared in 1991, during a period of heated disagreement over cultural and social issues.
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17 hours ago · In that book, I noted what was then a novelty: the emergence in American political culture of two rival moral visions—one progressive, the other culturally conservative. The rise of these two all-encompassing ideologies cut across previous cultural hostilities.
Mar 20, 2015 · The term "culture wars" refers to the political and sociological polarisation that has characterised American society the past several decades. This new edition provides an enlightening and comprehensive A-to-Z ready reference, now with supporting primary documents, on major topics of contemporary importance for students, teachers, and the ...
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May 20, 2021 · In 1991, with America gripped by a struggle between an increasingly liberal secular society that pushed for change and a conservative opposition that rooted its worldview in divine scripture,...
Jun 2, 2023 · The publication of Nigel Biggar’s book Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning marks a milestone in this culture war. It is the first serious attempt to lend the minimisation and justification of colonialism’s violence and racism some intellectual credibility.
Mar 22, 2024 · An intellectual nonconformist, Roy has achieved something remarkable: he has written a book on identity politics that neither condemns nor embraces it, but is instead a nuanced cultural...
Andrew Hartman’s War for the Soul of America is a welcome and long overdue analysis of the 1980s and 1990s culture wars, a series of conflicts over gender, race, religion, and education. The phenomenon was first theorized by James Davison Hunter in 1991 (Culture Wars. The Struggle to Define America).