The Culture War and the Sacred/Secular Divide: The Problem of Pluralism and Weak Hegemony

• Autores: James Davison Hunter
• Localización: Social research: An international quarterly of the social sciences, ISSN 0037-783X, Nº. 4, 2009 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The Religious-Secular divide: the U.S. case), págs. 1307-1322
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The culture war over the last several decades in North America appears to be a proxy between the conflict of the sacred and the secular. Yet, this perception ignores the complexity that actually exists. Advocates for competing sides have never denied a place for the other but affirmed the necessity of pluralism in American democracy. Rather, the conflict has been a contest over the language and limits of acceptable pluralism; over where and how and on what terms the boundaries of tolerable diversity would be drawn.