Kulturní válka: dvě podoby americké společnosti

Title in English Cultural War: Two Forms of American Society
Authors

VÁCLAVÍK David

Year of publication 2014
Type Article in Proceedings
Citation
Keywords cultural war; ideology; modern society; USA
Description The concept of so called culture war has occured in various analyses focused on transformation of modern societies and especially American society since 1960’s. This concept underlies „ideological schism“, which is participated on majority of the polarizing debates in American (and not only American) public sphere. These dabates involved wide spectrum of controversies like relationships between state and church, multiculturalism, abortion or gay marriages. The paper will focus on analysis of the concept of cultural war and its „using“ in „ideological struggle“ between liberals and conservatives streams in contemporary American politics. It will also consider sustainability of this concept for the scientific reflection, especially for description and interpretation of the religious situation in American society

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