Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America

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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" to assert dominion over the various institutional and systemic entities influenced by contemporary cultural praxis, most visibly the governing branches of America.[2][3]

References[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Is There a Culture War?". 23 May 2006.
  3. ^ "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction".

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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