Sentences with phrase «book culture wars»

If you're ready to take a breather from the comic book culture wars, a couple of articles this week examined various vital aspects of comic book sales.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

The most developed, systematic and sweeping version of the idea of a culture war appeared in the 1991 book Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, by James Davison Hunter, a University of Virginia sociologist.

Not exact matches

One: books about how the financial crash happened and why (Making it Happen, The Alchemists, The Unwinding, The Billionaire's Apprentice, After the Music Stopped) and two: books about the business and culture of technology (The Everything Store, Smarter Than You Think, as well as Hatching Twitter, by Nick Bilton and Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution, by Fred Vogelstein.)

Previous chapters in the book have dealt with the relations of Christian ethics to the culture of our times in reference to family life, economic relations, race relations, political structures, and the problems of war and peace in the international scene.

It should be noted that the book was essentially written before September 11, and some last minute stitchings about what the war on terrorism might mean for the world and American culture do not sit well with the burden of his argument.

Although the book reminds us of a time when deep social divisiveness was not at the core of the culture wars, was he right to suggest that religion was an under - acknowledged party in American discussions about pluralism?

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

In view of the author's standing in the intellectual culture that she criticizes, the book should precipitate a lively and better «informed discussion of the culture war in which, like it or not, we are all embroiled.

And, my the «culture wars» will simply be a paragraph, if that, within a history book.

Despite the fact that culture conflict is deeply ingrained in American politics (I am calling this the «broad» version of the culture - wars idea), the «narrow» version of the argument found in Hunter's book (and many activists» rhetoric) is clearly wrong.

In an earlier book, What Went Wrong, published shortly after September 11, 2001, Bernard Lewis outlined the gradual triumph of Western science, technology, ways of making war, learning, and culture over Islam since the naval battle of Lepanto in 1571, when the Christian league decisively defeated the Turks.

The book was assured more attention amid the ambiance of a fresh round in the culture wars.

In a 2006 book called, «Is There a Culture War?»

Hunter's book presents a strong case for understanding the current state of public discourse as a «culture war,» shaped by ideological extremes.

While most of his books since his move to that liberal aerie have dealt with American history, he has also joined the culture wars now raging inside the Catholic Church, and very much on the liberal side.

No matter what you believe about the role of Christians in society and culture, especially in regard to social issues like hunger, poverty, and war, Shane's book will challenge you to think and act differently.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

A book I am reading now is called «Sea of Faith» and its about the interaction between Christian and Islamic culture in war and peace around the Mediteranean Sea from 600 to around 1700 I think.

Clarke D. Forsythe, senior counsel for Americans for Life, has written an essential book for lawmakers and all participants in the ongoing culture wars, particularly those engaging in public - policy issues concerning the origins of life, the end of life, and marriage.

In our forthcoming book, Beyond the Catholic Culture Wars (Encounter Books), my coauthor and I survey a number of dioceses across the United States that are experiencing an upward trend in their vocation rates.

The human polytheists, in practice, have a great deal in common with the Abrahamic monotheists of Planet Earth: They're a people of the book, divided between fundamentalists who take the sacred scrolls literally and more latitudinarian believers who don't, and divided, as well, on all the culture - war questions — notably abortion — that divide our own semi-Christian West.

Also at noon, faith leaders and low - wage workers will gather at the state Capitol for a Moral Monday press conference and vigil to call on lawmakers to end the culture of on - and off - the - books corruption that characterizes the policy - making process in Albany, War Room, 3rd Floor.

This is adapted from his new book The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the computer as culture machine (The MIT Press)

The events at the end of the comic - book event series Civil War II will The Black Dude Dies First trope as used in popular culture.

Seuss was quite unhappy when the anti-abortion movement latched onto the book's line of «a person's a person, no matter how small,» but this movie has touches of politics all over it that weren't in the book, including a town council more concerned with PR than safety and the injection of conservative culture - war rhetoric into the book's sour kangaroo (who now «pouch - schools» her joey.)

Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (127 Hours) has mined Paul Torday's book for delicious nuggets about Western capitalism at war with Muslim culture.

At a time when a virtual war on women has rocketed to the front lines of the great American culture wars, it's a stunning indication of exactly how out of touch with reality are those who would be our leaders that The Hunger Games books have been so wildly successful.

The book recounts Barker's arrival in Kabul, what it was like being a woman in wartime Iraq and Pakistan, and dealing with spurts of boredom and violence in a «promiscuous war - correspondent culture.»

By now you've seen Avengers: Infinity War but did you catch all the easter eggs, comic book and pop culture references?

The entire film references other comic book films, and pop culture mentions, typically by making fun of them in some way; Green Lantern, joke in the credits, Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice's silly mommy moment, Hawkeye's lack of powers, Josh Brolin's Thanos's two - timing as a character in Avengers: Infinity of War less than three weeks ago, at one point Wade simply calls Brolin's (Cable), «Thanos,» Logan's gags you'll need to see for yourself.

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Since publishing her groundbreaking book Passages in 1976, Gail Sheehy has trained her keen eye upon diverse facets of modern American culture and life: everything from war and politics to prostitution and menopause.

The Brave Unicorn is an illustrated children's bedtime book that attracts children to read with pop culture artwork (including Gangnam Style, Peanut Butter Jelly Time, Slurpee and Star Wars), while teaching kids grit including life lessons about how to overcome disappointment and failure.

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Only recently have we begun to look deeper, in popular culture (books and movies, etc.) at the experience of slavery for those enslaved, and the experience of survival for those in the South who weren't soldiers — obviously much worse than for families up North, since these states were not in the «war zone.»

In Just One Catch, the definitive Heller biography, Tracy Daugherty reconstructs the author's life, and as our reviewer wrote, it «illuminate [s] the post-World War II culture of American fiction — from the emergence of Jewish sensibilities as a key narrative element to the influence of mass advertising and television to the corporatization of book publishing.»

This book features three short fictional stories of WWII on the American homefront, an angle on the conflict that hasn't received as much attention in our popular culture as other aspects of the war have.

I find it as satisfying as any other pop - culture franchise I enjoy: I rate it up there with Buffy (TV), Harry Potter (books) and Star Wars (film).

Video Game Roundtable Episode 255: Pop Culture This week's a lot of discussion of comic book movies, including the upcoming «Captain America: Civil War».

The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible used medieval works from the Morgan and The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, to explore ways in which Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures used storytelling to define themselves and their values.

Fred Turner is the author of several books about media and American culture since World War II, including the award - winning From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism.

He is currently working on a new book project entitled The New Monuments and the End of Man: American Sculpture Between War and Peace, 1945 - 1975, which will consider the intertwined histories of sculpture and nuclear war in postwar U.S. cultuWar and Peace, 1945 - 1975, which will consider the intertwined histories of sculpture and nuclear war in postwar U.S. cultuwar in postwar U.S. culture.

He is currently working on a book project entitled The New Monuments and the End of Man: American Sculpture Between War and Peace, 1945 - 1975, which will consider the intertwined histories of sculpture and nuclear war in postwar U.S. cultuWar and Peace, 1945 - 1975, which will consider the intertwined histories of sculpture and nuclear war in postwar U.S. cultuwar in postwar U.S. culture.

Her six books are Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990); Sex, Art, and American Culture (1992); Vamps & Tramps: New Essays (1994); The Birds, a study of Alfred Hitchcock published in 1998 by the British Film Institute in its Film Classics Series; Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty - Three of the World's Best Poems (2005), and Glittering Images: A Journey through Art from Egypt to Star Wars (2012).

Her recently published book, Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War, poses uncomfortable questions about today's image culture and the art market.

With a childhood surrounding a love of comic books, video games and pop culture, Doyle loves to pick out the locations and places made famous by films as epic as Star Wars, Pulp Fiction and Blade Runner — recreating them through bold and colourful illustrations; 10 of which will be on show and available as limited edition prints during a special «collectors preview» of the show next month.

Talk: «My Hermitage celebration with Dr. Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky» at Rizzoli Bookstore Dr. Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum, sits down with Philadelphia Museum of Art Director Timothy Rub to discuss the former's newly published book — My Hermitage: How the Hermitage Survived Tsars, Wars, and Revolutions to become the Greatest Museum in the World — that explores the culture history of the collection.

Upon its publication, the book became a lightning rod for controversy in the culture wars of the 1980s.

Noted pop - culture collectibles sculptor Pigott exhibits figures, production figures, book covers, wax originals and relief plaques, supplemented by photos and concept drawings of other creations from «Star Wars,» «Lord of the Rings,» «The Simpsons,» «Star Trek» and «Alien.»