Political Extremism in the Wake of Charlottesville: New Culture Wars

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina R. Lee ◽  
Cameron Espinoza
Keyword(s):  
Culture Wars ◽  
Political Extremism

The Politics of Prophecy: The US Culture Wars and the Battle Over Public Education in the Left Behind Series for Kids

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Ann Abate Michelle
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Church History ◽  
Good News ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
School Prayer ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Religious Books ◽  
The Us

This essay argues that in spite of their obvious Biblically-based subject matter, clear Christian content, and undeniable evangelical perspective, the Left Behind novels for kids are not simply religious books; they are also political ones. Co-authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins may claim that their narratives are interested in sharing the good news about Jesus for the sake of the future, but they are equally concerned with offering commentary on contentious US cultural issues in the present. Given the books’ adolescent readership, they are especially preoccupied with the ongoing conservative crusade concerning school prayer. As advocates for this issue, LaHaye and Jenkins make use of a potent blend of current socio-political arguments and of past events in evangelical church history: namely, the American Sunday School Movement (ASSM). These free, open-access Sabbath schools became the model for the public education system in the United States. In drawing on this history, the Left Behind series suggests that the ASSM provides an important precedent for the presence not simply of Christianity in the nation's public school system, but of evangelical faith in particular.

Popular Politics and Electioneering between the Wars

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Petrie
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
Political Extremism ◽  
Mass Democracy

Disruption and rowdyism at political meetingswas a feature of Victorian and Edwardian electioneering. The advent of mass democracy, and the rise of Communism in Europe, ensured that such behaviour came to be portrayed as evidence of political extremism and a threat to political stability. As a result, Labour candidates, keen to position their party as one capable of governing for the nation as a whole, distanced themselves from popular electoral traditions now synonymous with a confrontational, and unacceptable, politics of class. Heckling, rowdyism and disruption came, by the 1930s, to be associated primarily with the Communist Party.

Constitutional policy of law of modern Russia: ideas, priorities, values, directions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Павел Баранов ◽  
Pavel Baranov ◽  
Алексей Овчинников ◽  
Aleksey Ovchinnikov ◽  
Алексей Мамычев ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Political Extremism ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
Legal Policy ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The monograph is a comprehensive study of the nature, content and priorities of the constitutional and legal policy of the Russian state. The authors identify and analyze various elements of the constitutional legal doctrine (value-normative, socio-political, economic, international law, spiritual and moral, etc.), as well as the directions of its development in Russia in the XXI century. Constitutional and legal policy is considered in the context of modern problems of national and religious security, in the sphere of combating political extremism, corruption, network wars, etc.the analysis of practical issues related to the implementation of constitutional and legal policy in various spheres of state and public life is Carried out. The publication is aimed at specialists in the field of law, political science, public administration. The book can also be used in the study of such disciplines as "Constitutional law of the Russian Federation", "Legal policy of the modern state", " Fundamentals of national security»

Culture Wars in Brazil

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daryle Williams
Keyword(s):  
Culture Wars

Words as Weapons

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Connal Parr
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
Republican Movement ◽  
Artistic Merit

‘Culture wars’ in Northern Ireland are literary and rest upon the misperception—and political claim—that Ulster Protestants lack a culture aside from Orangeism. Unionist politicians and Republican writers have accordingly cultivated the myth that Ulster Protestants lack literary heritage and have never been involved in the theatre. The community has internalized a post-conflict ‘defeatism’ and a conviction that it has produced little or nothing of artistic merit. This has been fortified by the individualist, splintered nature of the Protestant community as opposed to the more cohesive and communally robust Catholic equivalent. The Republican movement and its associated writers mainly view literature as an arm of the struggle, which is shown to be important in bringing about an end to conflict, but has led to a derogation of working-class Protestants. The chapter also considers Ulster Loyalist engagement with poetry and drama.

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