Culture Wars The Struggle To Control The

A riveting account of how Christian fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, and conservative Catholics have joined forces in a battle against their progressive counterparts for control of American secular culture.

James Davidson Hunter is professor of sociology and religious studies at the University of Virginia and author of Evangelicalism: The Coming Generation (1987).

Preface

xi

I INTRODUCTION

3

(64)

Prologue Stories from the Front

3

(28)

1 Cultural Conflict in America

31

(21)

Cultural Conflict: The American Story

35

(4)

The End of an Age?

39

(3)

New Lines of Conflict: The Argument in Brief

42

(7)

The Struggle to Define America

49

(3)

2 The Anatomy of Cultural Conflict

52

(15)

Public Culture--Private Culture

53

(8)

Public Culture in Contemporary America

61

(6)

II THE NEW LINES OF CONFLICT

67

(68)

3 The Historical Roots of the Culture War

67

(40)

The Expansion of Pluralism

67

(10)

Century-Old Fault Lines

77

(9)

The Waning of Denominational Loyalties

86

(3)

Religiously Based Special Agenda Organizations

89

(7)

The Realignment of American Public Culture

96

(8)

The Collapse of the Old Divide

104

(3)

4 Competing Moral Visions

107

(28)

Competing Philosophies of American Public Life

108

(8)

Public Philosophy and National Priority

116

(1)

Moral Authority and the Realignment of Public Culture

117

(11)

In Separate Worlds

128

(7)

III CULTURAL WARFARE

135

(38)

5 The Discourse of Adversaries

135

(24)

Discrediting the Opposition

136

(7)

The Grammar of Contemporary Hostility

143

(13)

Symmetry in Antipathy

156

(3)

6 The Technology of Public Discourse

159

(14)

The Eclipse of the Middle

160

(1)

The Media of Public Discourse

161

(12)

IV THE FIELDS OF CONFLICT

173

(122)

Opening Observations

173

(3)

7 Family

176

(21)

Defining the Family

177

(3)

The Fate of the Traditional Family

180

(2)

Policy Brawls

182

(13)

Family and Nation

195

(2)

8 Education

197

(28)

The "School Question"

198

(13)

Contending for the Ivory Tower

211

(13)

A Trail of Ironies

224

(1)

9 Media and the Arts

225

(25)

Taking on the Establishment

226

(4)

The Politics of Free Speech

230

(9)

Censorship

239

(8)

Art, Expression, and the Sacred

247

(3)

10 Law

250

(22)

Packing the Courts

251

(2)

The Rules for Resolving Public Differences

253

(16)

Law and Domination

269

(3)

11 Electoral Politics

272

(16)

Playing Off the Interests

274

(7)

The Emergence of "Rhetorical Leadership"

281

(5)

Politicians and the Culture War: Who Is Using Whom?

286

(2)

Parting Observations

288

(7)

V TOWARD RESOLUTION

295

(23)

12 Moral Pluralism and the Democratic Ideal

295

(23)

Locating the Advantage

298

(9)

The Challenges Pased to the American Democratic Ideal

307

(11)

Epilogue Democratic Possibilities

318

(8)

Agreement Within Disagreement

318

(2)

Practical Steps

320

(5)

An American Legacy

325

(1)

Notes

326

(67)

Selected Bibliography

393

(10)

Index

403

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Culture Wars The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America

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