James Davison Hunter
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Oct 6, 2026
Cameron McAllisterHOST
Yeah, so I'm going to recommend a book here, and it's not the typical book I usually recommend.
Cameron McAllisterHOST
It's not James Davison Hunter, so put those bingo cards away.
Cameron McAllisterHOST
David Foster Wallace wrote a worship book.
Cameron McAllisterHOST
Ah, very good.
D. Millard HaskellGUEST
I mean, I'd say about 10% of Canadians are willing to stick their neck out.
D. Millard HaskellGUEST
But unlike in Canada, again, going back to this media thing, It was James Davison Hunter who talked about to change the world.
D. Millard HaskellGUEST
He had that book.
D. Millard HaskellGUEST
It was very popular in the US.
Mark DavisHOST
There's kind of this, there was this big burst of activity in the 1990s, in the early 1990s when Pat Buchanan made his big culture wars speech at the Republican convention.
Mark DavisHOST
And then there was a book by a guy called James Davison Hunter called Culture Wars, The Struggle to Control the Family, Art, Education, Law and Politics in America.
Mark DavisHOST
And then a whole bunch of people came out and said, oh, yeah, well, let's do some empirical research and see if it holds up.
Mark DavisHOST
They decided it didn't.
Michael HortonHOST
Absolutely.
Michael HortonHOST
James Davison Hunter at the University of Virginia calls it a hazy moralism.
Michael HortonHOST
Ann Douglas, a feminist historian, calls American Christianity feel-good sentimentalism.
Michael HortonHOST
Laura Witten, in her study, All is Forgiven, she surveyed Southern Baptists and mainline Protestants and concluded they all preach the same message.