Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America is a book written by James Davison Hunter and published in 1991. It concerns the idea of a struggle to define American public life between two cultures: the progressives and the orthodox. The book illustrates its framework of historical analysis through several of the contemporary issues of the time: abortion rights, school prayer, gay rights, and more. [1]
Progressive and orthodox views are primarily systems of moral understanding. He identifies orthodoxy as a viewpoint through which moral truth is static, universal, and sanctioned through divine powers; contrasting progressivism, which sees moral truth as evolving and contextual. These two groups are locked in an everlasting " culture war" [2] to assert dominion over the various institutional and systemic entities influenced by contemporary cultural praxis, most visibly the governing branches of America. [3] [4]
References
- ^ Kowaleski, Mark R. (Fall 1992). "James Davison Hunter. "Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America" (Book Review)". Sociological Analysis. 53 (3): 337–338. doi: 10.2307/3711713. JSTOR 3711713.
- ^ Willick, Jason (May 25, 2018). "The Man Who Discovered 'Culture Wars'". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved February 15, 2022.
- ^ "Transcript: Is There a Culture War?". Pew Research Center. May 23, 2006.
- ^ "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction". Kirkus.
Sources
- Grimes, Michael D. (1993). "Review". Social Science Quarterly. 74 (1): 230. JSTOR 42863186.
- Johnson, D. Paul (1992). "Review". Journal of Church and State. 34 (3): 607–608. doi: 10.1093/jcs/34.3.607. JSTOR 23919465.
- Kurtz, Lester R. (1994). "Review". American Journal of Sociology. 99 (4): 1125–1128. doi: 10.1086/230395. JSTOR 2781763.
- Mechling, Jay (1994). "Review". American Studies. 35 (1): 155–156. JSTOR 40642591.
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