TY - BOOK AU - Wuthnow,Robert TI - Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America's Heartland SN - 9780691150550 AV - BL65.P7 W88 2017 U1 - 306.661709781 23 PY - 2011///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Kansas KW - Politics and government KW - History KW - Political culture KW - Religion and politics KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General KW - bisacsh KW - Abraham Lincoln KW - Bill Clinton KW - Catholics KW - Dwight D. Eisenhower KW - Franklin D. Roosevelt KW - George Tiller KW - George W. Bush KW - Great Depression KW - Harry S. Truman KW - Laura Beers KW - Methodist Episcopal Church KW - Methodists KW - Middle West KW - Populism KW - Prohibition KW - Protestant churches KW - Protestants KW - Religious Right KW - Republican Party KW - Republicans KW - Richard Nixon KW - Robert F. Kennedy KW - Vietnam War KW - W. L. Beers KW - abortion KW - activism KW - anti-communism KW - antiboss Republicans KW - black power KW - churches KW - civic order KW - conservatism KW - creationism KW - crime of passion KW - desegregation KW - education KW - evolution KW - fundamentalism KW - good citizenship KW - homes KW - hometowns KW - inequality KW - moral activism KW - murder KW - political activism KW - political isolation KW - political movements KW - politics KW - racial equality KW - red state politics KW - red state religion KW - red states KW - religion KW - religious movements KW - same-sex marriage KW - slavery KW - statehood N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Prologue --; Murder at the Glenwood --; 1. Piety on the Plains --; 2. An Evolving Political Style --; 3. Redefining the Heartland --; 4. Quiet Conservatism --; 5. An Era of Restructuring --; 6. The Religious Right --; 7. Continuing the Struggle --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 go from being a progressive state to one of the most conservative? In Red State Religion, Robert Wuthnow tells the story of religiously motivated political activism in Kansas from territorial days to the present. He examines how faith mixed with politics as both ordinary Kansans and leaders such as John Brown, Carrie Nation, William Allen White, and Dwight Eisenhower struggled over the pivotal issues of their times, from slavery and Prohibition to populism and anti-communism. Beyond providing surprising new explanations of why Kansas became a conservative stronghold, the book sheds new light on the role of religion in red states across the Midwest and the United States. Contrary to recent influential accounts, Wuthnow argues that Kansas conservatism is largely pragmatic, not ideological, and that religion in the state has less to do with politics and contentious moral activism than with relationships between neighbors, friends, and fellow churchgoers. This is an important book for anyone who wants to understand the role of religion in American political conservatism UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400839759?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400839759 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400839759.jpg ER -