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Political Religion and Religious Politics - Navigating Identities in the United States (Hardcover)
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Political Religion and Religious Politics - Navigating Identities in the United States (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics
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Profound demographic and cultural changes in American society over
the last half century have unsettled conventional understandings of
the relationship between religious and political identity. The
"Protestant mainline" continues to shrink in numbers, as well as in
cultural and political influence. The growing population of
American Muslims seek both acceptance and a firmer footing within
the nation's cultural and political imagination. Debates over
contraception, same-sex relationships, and "prosperity" preaching
continue to roil the waters of American cultural politics. Perhaps
most remarkably, the fastest-rising religious demographic in most
public opinion surveys is "none," giving rise to a new demographic
that Gutterman and Murphy name "Religious Independents." Even the
evangelical movement, which powerfully re-entered American politics
during the 1970s and 1980s and retains a strong foothold in the
Republican Party, has undergone generational turnover and no longer
represents a monolithic political bloc. Political Religion and
Religious Politics:Navigating Identities in the United States
explores the multifaceted implications of these developments by
examining a series of contentious issues in contemporary American
politics. Gutterman and Murphy take up the controversy over the
"Ground Zero Mosque," the political and legal battles over the
contraception mandate in the Affordable Health Care Act and the
ensuing Supreme Court Hobby Lobby decision, the national response
to the Great Recession and the rise in economic inequality, and
battles over the public school curricula, seizing on these divisive
challenges as opportunities to illuminate the changing role of
religion in American public life. Placing the current moment into
historical perspective, and reflecting on the possible future of
religion, politics, and cultural conflict in the United States,
Gutterman and Murphy explore the cultural and political dynamics of
evolving notions of national and religious identity. They argue
that questions of religion are questions of identity -- personal,
social, and political identity -- and that they function in many of
the same ways as race, sex, gender, and ethnicity in the
construction of personal meaning, the fostering of solidarity with
others, and the conflict they can occasion in the political arena.
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