No state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for
longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the
place. It is also the place to understand red state religion. The
Kansas Board of Education has repeatedly challenged the teaching of
evolution, Kansas voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional ban
on gay marriage, the state is a hotbed of antiabortion protest--and
churches have been involved in all of these efforts. Yet in 1867
suffragist Lucy Stone could plausibly proclaim that, in the cause
of universal suffrage, "Kansas leads the world " How did Kansas go
from being a progressive state to one of the most conservative?
In "Red State Religion," Robert Wuthnow tells the story of
religiously motivated political activism in Kansas from territorial
days to the present. He examines how faith mixed with politics as
both ordinary Kansans and leaders such as John Brown, Carrie
Nation, William Allen White, and Dwight Eisenhower struggled over
the pivotal issues of their times, from slavery and Prohibition to
populism and anti-communism. Beyond providing surprising new
explanations of why Kansas became a conservative stronghold, the
book sheds new light on the role of religion in red states across
the Midwest and the United States. Contrary to recent influential
accounts, Wuthnow argues that Kansas conservatism is largely
pragmatic, not ideological, and that religion in the state has less
to do with politics and contentious moral activism than with
relationships between neighbors, friends, and fellow
churchgoers.
This is an important book for anyone who wants to understand
the role of religion in American political conservatism.
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