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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"culture war"”.
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Culture War Commonalities: Personal Appearance in Commonwealth England
… changes that encompassed England’s Civil Wars, and later the Puritan-dominated Commonwealth, during the seventeenth-century led to a surge of moralist literature, published during a period with little to no press censorship. Against a backdrop of social upheaval and failing moral …
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Exploring the New Front of the Culture War: <i>1984, Oryx and Crake,</i> and Cultural Hegemony
… depicts a society that is a reaction to World War II and totalitarian regimes. This society depicts elements of cultural hegemony that are altered during the move to postmodernism. Atwood’s Oryx and Crake evolved to reflect the political climate that grew out of the Cold War’s end, while …
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CULTURE WARS AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE GATE: SCHOOL BOARD DECISION MAKING & STUDENTS’ SPEECH RIGHTS
… Library Association, 2023). After studying culture war conflicts, Hunter (1991), Zimmerman (2002), and Harman (2019) posit that the bounds of pluralistic living, such as whether to include or exclude educational materials with LGBTQIA+ characters, are never settled for good. Instead, culture …
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Furling The South Carolina Confederate Flag: Political Expediency Or Cultural Change?
… debate that convulsed the state’s political culture and deeply divided South Carolinians. In June 2015, a young white man named Dylann Roof entered a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina and gunned down nine African Americans, purely because of their race. The murders sparked …
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Constitución y guerra: Una revisión del sistema de derechos fundamentales de Colombia durante el siglo XX
… by violence?. The last century began with the War of a Thousand Days and continued with the regional war in the thirties. Then came La Violencia, the revolutionary war and guerrilla warfare. In the eighties, there were the paramilitary and terrorism related to drug trafficking. Yet the legal …
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A Social Psychological Window into How Americans Think About First Amendment Religious Exemption Requests
… (but not liberal) stances on religion-relevant culture war issues with sincerely held religious belief. Studies 2 and 3 build on these findings by interrogating how politically diverse Americans evaluate exemption requests that are either schema-consistent (e.g., a conservative stance requesting …
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For the Love of God?! Is there a place for Gay Christians between Faith and Fundamentalism?
… homosexuality and Christianity. The current culture war being waged in the media between the Religious Right and members of the LGBT community often results in the isolation and rejection of those who would define themselves as gay Christians. This thesis explores the role of the Bible as it …
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Cup of salvation : race, religion, and anti-prohibition in Texas, 1885-1935.
… attention for its wide-ranging impact on culture and politics. Prohibitionist "drys" overcame anti-prohibitionists "wets" to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment banned the alcohol trade in the United States and took effect from 1920 until its repeal …
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Political Debate in the Age of Justinian I
… observing that Justinian I ruled in a political culture far more open to conflicts of views and criticism of the régime than is often appreciated. It conducts intertextual, contextualist close readings of the texts of thirteen contemporary authors to explain how this culture of debate operated. …
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Opera avanti a Dio! : religion and opera in liberal Italy from unification to the First World War
… positivist, intellectual centre of Turin, the culture war between competing visions of society and the purpose of art in Venice, and the confrontation between Papal Rome and the growing new capital city. Two thematic chapters consider how the adaptation of source texts in this period tended to …
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Modernismo and Patronage in Brazil, 1917-1949: the National versus the International
… (1917-1929) and argues that, whilst acting towards the renovation of Brazil’s aesthetic-literary realm, the movement challenged the political discourse on racial difference and white supremacy implied in the academicist view, thus it undermined the ‘coloniality of power’ inherent in the …
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The “Identity Biennial” & the Politics of the Interstice
… for the role it played in the late-century culture wars, multiculturalism, and renewed debates on the quincentenary of Columbus’ 1492 “discovery” of America. Yet, artworks like Willie Varela’s film A Lost Man (1992) and Miguel Gandert’s photo series Tierra O Muerte (1988) remain …
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"In the shadows" : David Foster Wallace and multicultural America
… his own university, Amherst College), the turn towards multicultural education and alternative literary canons in the 1990s, and the rising tide of nationalism and right-wing patriotism after 9/11. I depart from the universalist, ahistorical, post-racial framework of traditional Wallace …
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Britain and the Occupation of Germany, 1945-49
… Germany, 1945-49, was intended to transform the war-torn Third Reich into a peaceable nation through a series of far-reaching political, economic, and social reforms. But amid the growing tensions between East and West these radical plans would be significantly altered, culminating in the …
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Queer(y)ing the Politics of Offence: An Exploration of the Phenomenological Texture of Feeling in Higher Education
Amidst the contemporary ‘War on Woke’ in the UK and elsewhere, increasing concern has been focussed on the ‘offendability’ or ‘sensitivity’ of students on university campuses – a concern that has largely been captured in the notion of an ongoing ‘culture war’. Critical voices within the media and …
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Comics and Conflict: War and Patriotically Themed Comics in American Cultural History From World War Ii Through the Iraq War
… children, a form of escape.</p><p>As World War II began, however, comic books became an integral part of war propaganda as well providing information and education for both children and adults. This dissertation looks at how specific comic books of the war genre have been used to display …