Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age |
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| Author:
| Buell, John |
| ISBN: | 978-1-283-26672-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $180.00 |
Book Description:
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American politics is increasingly driven by apocalyptic rhetoric. Highlighting possible adverse consequences of such politics for our freedom and quality of life, this book suggests alternative policy agendas, religious, and philosophical discourses, cultural framing and modes of daily living in an effort to defuse what it takes to be a divisive politics that paradoxically increases the very risks it highlights.
American politics is increasingly driven by apocalyptic rhetoric. Highlighting possible adverse consequences of such politics for our freedom and quality of life, this book suggests alternative policy agendas, religious, and philosophical discourses, cultural framing and modes of daily living in an effort to defuse what it takes to be a divisive politics that paradoxically increases the very risks it highlights.