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Anyone who seeks to understand the dynamics of culture and politics in theUnited States must grapple with the importance of religion in its many diverseand contentious manifestations. With conservative evangelicals forming the baseof the Republican Party racialethnic communities often organized alongreligious lines and sociopolitical movements on the left including majorreligious components many of the countrys key culturalpolitical debates arecarried out through religious discourse.In this volume Mark Hulsether leads readers on a tour of religion in theUnited States. He introduces key players and offers a set of case studies toexplore the interaction of these players with major trends in U.S. culturalhistory. Students in American studies and cultural studies will especiallyappreciate how Hulsether frames his analysis using categories such as culturalhegemony race and gender contestation popular culture and empire enabling amore informed and constructive discussion of religion in these fields.Hulsether offers a synthesis that is concise yet internally complex anddynamic mdashone that gives special attention to religious diversity andconflict the relations between religious groups and broader historical trendsand the internal struggles of religious people as they set priorities and copewith emerging change. «
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