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Category Archives: Culture War
Beating Guns – A Conversation with Shane Claiborne
Shane Claiborne is the author of nine books; a co-founder of The Simple Way, a Christian collective in Philadelphia; and co-director of Red Letter Christians, a non-denominational progressive movement. His new book, Beating Guns: Hope for People Who are Weary … Continue reading
The Color of Compromise – A Conversation with Jemar Tisby
Jemar Tisby is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Mississippi. In his new book, The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, Tisby surveys American history with an eye … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, Color of Compromise, Jemar Tisby, Race
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Nixon Kids – A Conversation with Seth Blumenthal
Seth Blumenthal is Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University. In his new book, Children of the Silent Majority: Young Voters and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1968-1980, Blumenthal considers the conservative youth of … Continue reading
Posted in Culture War, Politics
Tagged Nixon, Seth Blumenthal, Silent Majority
The Evangelical Crackup – A Conversation with Paul A. Djupe
Paul A. Djupe is Associate Professor of Political Science at Denison University. He is the former editor of the journal Politics & Religion, and current editor of Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics, a new book series from Temple University Press. … Continue reading
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Tagged Evangelical Crackup, Paul Djupe
Back to the Bible – A Conversation with Rachel Held Evans
Rachel Held Evans is a New York Times best-selling author of four books, each covering changes and developments in her Christian faith. Her most recent, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Finding the Bible Again, approaches the Bible as … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Inspired, Rachel Held Evans
On Religious Freedom – A Conversation with Heath Brown
Though The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States is arguably not new, and quite arguably not political science, it was featured this week on the New Books in Political Science podcast. In this episode, host Heath Brown and … Continue reading
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Tagged Heath Brown, New Books
Believing Donald Trump – A Conversation with John Fea
John Fea is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Messiah College. In his new book, Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, Fea draws upon four centuries of Christian history to diagnose the troubling persistence of … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Culture War, Politics
Tagged Believe Me, Evangelicals, John Fea, Trump
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Fundamentalist U – A Conversation with Adam Laats
Adam Laats is Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning & Educational Leadership at the State University of New York at Binghamton. In his new book, Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education, Laats documents the challenges and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Laats, Books, Fundamentalist U
Christian Rock – A Conversation with Randall J. Stephens
Randall J. Stephens is Reader and Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Northumbria University in northeast England. In his most recent book, The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll, Stephens documents the turbulent … Continue reading
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Tagged Randall Stephens, Rock 'n' Roll, The Devil's Music
Conservative Liberals – A Conversation with Andrew R. Lewis
Andrew R. Lewis is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. His book, The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars, was published last fall by Cambridge University Press. In it, he … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lewis, Rights Turn
Why Donald Trump – A Conversation with Stephen Mansfield
Stephen Mansfield is a historian, speaker, and best-selling author of books about George Whitefield, Booker T. Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, among others. His latest book, Choosing Donald Trump: God, Anger, Hope, and Why … Continue reading
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Tagged Choosing Donald Trump, Stephen Mansfield
Origin Story – A Conversation with Frances FitzGerald
Frances FitzGerald is a decorated journalist and historian. She is a recipient of the Bancroft Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. Over the past five decades, her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Culture War
Tagged Evangelicals, Francis FitzGerald
Over the Empathy Wall – A Conversation with Arlie Hochschild
Arlie Russell Hochschild is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. For five years she traveled in the bayous of southern Louisiana, interacting with Tea Party conservatives and trying to understand their thinking about life, hope, faith, … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Civility, Culture War, Politics
Tagged Arlie Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land
Great Redemption – A Conversation with Alison Collis Greene
Alison Collis Greene is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Mississippi State University. Her book, No Depression in Heaven: the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta, was published in December by … Continue reading
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Tagged FDR, Great Depression, New Deal
