Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America's Heartland
No state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is also the place to understand red state religion. The Kansas Board of Education has repeatedly challenged the teaching of evolution, Kansas voters overwhel...
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Language: | English |
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Princeton University Press
2012
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Reviews: | Red state religion. Faith and politics in America's heartland. By Robert Wuthnow. Pp. xv+484 incl. 13 ills. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012 (2011). £24.95 (35). 978 0 691 15055 0 (2012) (Preston, Andrew)
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Further subjects: | B
Religion And Politics Kansas
History
B Political Culture B Kansas Politics and government History B Religion And Politics (Kansas) History B Religion And Politics B POLITICAL SCIENCE / Generals B Political Culture Kansas History B Political Culture (Kansas) History |
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Summary: | No state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is also the place to understand red state religion. The Kansas Board of Education has repeatedly challenged the teaching of evolution, Kansas voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional ban on gay marriage, the state is a hotbed of antiabortion protest--and churches have been involved in all of these efforts. Yet in 1867 suffragist Lucy Stone could plausibly proclaim that, in the cause of universal suffrage, "Kansas leads the world!" How did Kansas g |
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ISBN: | 1400839750 |
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9781400839759 |