RT Book
T1 Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America's Heartland
A1 Wuthnow, Robert 1946-
LA English
PP Princeton
PB Princeton University Press
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1657400077
AB 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
CN BL65 .P7 W88 2011
SN 9781400839759
K1 Religion And Politics : Kansas : History
K1 Kansas : Politics and government : History
K1 Political Culture : Kansas : History
K1 Political Culture
K1 Religion And Politics
K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
DO 10.1515/9781400839759