{"product_id":"the-rights-turn-in-conservative-christian-politics-how-abortion-transformed-the-culture-wars-paperback-9781108405607","title":"The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics; How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108405607","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHow Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplains how abortion politics influenced a fundamental shift in conservative Christian politics, teaching conservatives to embrace rights arguments.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndrew R. Lewis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108405607, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 April 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e291 pages, 28 b\/w illus.  14 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.3 x 15.4 x 1.7 cm, 0.52 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Lewis's work contributes much to a collective understanding of how religion participates on the political landscape.' Katherine Dugan, Reading Religion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics documents a recent, fundamental change in American politics with the waning of Christian America. Rather than conservatives emphasizing morality and liberals emphasizing rights, both sides now wield rights arguments as potent weapons to win political and legal battles and build grassroots support. Lewis documents this change on the right, focusing primarily on evangelical politics. Using extensive historical and survey data that compares evangelical advocacy and evangelical public opinion, Lewis explains how the prototypical culture war issue - abortion - motivated the conservative rights turn over the past half century, serving as a springboard for rights learning and increased conservative advocacy in other arenas. Challenging the way we think about the culture wars, Lewis documents how rights claims are used to thwart liberal rights claims, as well as to provide protection for evangelicals, whose cultural positions are increasingly in the minority; they have also allowed evangelical elites to justify controversial advocacy positions to their base and to engage more easily in broad rights claiming in new or expanded political arenas, from health care to capital punishment.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003e List of tables and figures\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: rights on the right\u003cbr\u003e 2. Cultivating the value of rights: Evangelicals and abortion politics\u003cbr\u003e 3. But words can never hurt me: learning the value of free speech\u003cbr\u003e 4. Separation tranquility: abortion and the decline of the separation of church and state\u003cbr\u003e 5. First do no harm: abortion and health care opposition\u003cbr\u003e 6. Who's rights: abortion politics, victims, and offenders in the death penalty debate\u003cbr\u003e 7. Where's the right? What abortion taught the losers in the gay marriage debate\u003cbr\u003e 8. Conclusion. Rights, reciprocity, and the future of conservative religious politics\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1. Variable coding\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2. Statistical tables\u003cbr\u003e Endnotes.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Law \u0026amp; society [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Law \u0026amp; society\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Law%20\u0026amp;%20society%20%5BLAQ%5D%22\"\u003eLAQ\u003c\/a\u003e], Political science \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political science \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20science%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BJPA%5D%22\"\u003eJPA\u003c\/a\u003e], Sociology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20%5BJHB%5D%22\"\u003eJHB\u003c\/a\u003e], Religion \u0026amp; politics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Religion \u0026amp; politics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Religion%20\u0026amp;%20politics%20%5BHRAM2%5D%22\"\u003eHRAM2\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003366363416,"sku":"9781108405607","price":29.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108405607i.jpg?v=1696753667","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-rights-turn-in-conservative-christian-politics-how-abortion-transformed-the-culture-wars-paperback-9781108405607","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}