Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics - How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars

Informationen zum Autor Andrew R. Lewis is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. He researches the intersection of religion, law, and American politics. He contributes to FiveThirtyEight and other media outlets, and is currently Book Review Editor at the journal Politics and Religion. Klappentext Explains how abortion politics influenced a fundamental shift in conservative Christian politics, teaching conservatives to embrace rights arguments.This book documents a fundamental change in American politics. Rather than conservatives emphasizing morality and liberals emphasizing rights, both now wield rights arguments. Using extensive historical and survey data, Lewis provocatively explains how the prototypical culture war issue - abortion - has motivated the conservative rights turn over the past half-century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations; List of tables and figures; 1. Introduction: rights on the right; 2. Cultivating the value of rights: Evangelicals and abortion politics; 3. But words can never hurt me: learning the value of free speech; 4. Separation tranquility: abortion and the decline of the separation of church and state; 5. First do no harm: abortion and health care opposition; 6. Who's rights: abortion politics, victims, and offenders in the death penalty debate; 7. Where's the right? What abortion taught the losers in the gay marriage debate; 8. Conclusion. Rights, reciprocity, and the future of conservative religious politics; References; Appendix 1. Variable coding; Appendix 2. Statistical tables; Endnotes.

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• Authors: Andrew R Lewis, Andrew R. Lewis, Andrew R. (University of Cincinnati) Lewis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781108405607
• ISBN: 978-1-108-40560-7
• No. of pages: 291
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics; Cambridge Studies in Social Th; Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics; Cambridge Studies in Social Th
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Christianity, Ethical issues: abortion & birth control, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state