What Sehat misses is that what he calls the moral establishment, which roughly corresponds to the mainline
Protestant cultural hegemony that existed through the early 1960s, was common to all sides of the debate and made the conversation over religious liberty possible in the first place.
The important essay entitled «Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Culture in the Twentieth Century» holds that the old
Protestant cultural hegemony was defeated in no small part by the growing number of Jews championing «a secular vision of American culture» in the «American academic and literary intelligentsia» and in the best and most influential universities.
Not exact matches
Since the New Deal a series of slow, but steady, changes has brought the
cultural hegemony of Mainline Protestantism to an end, and with it the predominant set of values associated with the old term, «
Protestant.»