Stations of the Cross - Adorno and Christian Right Radio

"Apostolidis's application of dialectical criticism to the evangelical radio program" Focus on the Family" is theoretically innovative and politically daring. Reading Christian conservatism as cultural critique, he discerns in its narrative structures the same utopian desire for ethical autonomy that animates 'left' criticisms of our post-Fordist social order. No apologist for the New Right but a democratic provocateur, Apostolidis challenges progressives to set aside their secular disdain for evangelicalism and consider how its powerful cultural idiom might provide intellectual and political radicalism with a new voice."--Lisa Disch, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

List of contents

Acknowledments
Introduction
1. Adorno on Mass Culture and Cultural Criticism
> 2. Adorno’s Critique of Christian Right Radio in the New Deal Era
> 3. Christian Professionals and the Fraying Fabric of Health and Human Services
> 4. Christian Politicians and the Decline of Democratic Accountability
> 5. Christian Victims in the Backlash Society
> 6. Negative Dialectics and Political Practice
Appendix A
Complete Listing of Focus on the Family Broadcasts Selected for Research
Appendix B
> Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Paul Apostolidis is Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Apostolidis
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.06.2000
• EAN: 9780822325413
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2541-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 236 mm x 42 mm
• Weight: 953 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Christentum, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Politische Kontrolle, Propaganda und Freiheitsrechte