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1 day ago · We recommend four books that explain why Americans’s biggest battles are culture wars. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time. By Yascha Mounk. Penguin; 416 pages; $32 and £ ...
Jan 1, 1991 · "Culture Wars" is a book written by James Davison Hunter, a sociologist and cultural critic. In the book, Hunter examines the ongoing conflict and polarization in American society over various cultural issues such as abortion, homosexuality, and religious freedom.
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Dec 3, 2021 · The journalist, author and filmmaker picks his five best books about the culture wars, which form the subject of his new eight-part series, Things Fell Apart, available now on BBC Sounds and...
Author. James Davison Hunter. Publisher. Basic Books. Date of publication. December 1991. City of publication. New York. Abortion, funding for the arts, women’s rights, gay rights, court-packing–the list of controversies that divide our nation runs long and each one cuts deep.
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Oct 14, 1992 · James Davison Hunter is LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He is the author of Culture Wars and The Death of Character. Photo by Kirsten Rose.
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The US sociologist James Davison Hunter gave popular currency to the term in his seminal 1991 book Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America. He argued that they were about the orthodox versus the progressive. That division remains visible in the UK, but without the religious component.
13 hours ago · In Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, a book I published in 1991, I (for better or worse) contributed to this narrative. 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.