Building a Healthy Culture : Strategies for an American Renaissance

by Eberly, Don E.; Brownback, Sam

• ISBN13: 9780802849182
• ISBN10: 0802849180
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

This volume explores the state of American culture, offering fair and politically balanced strategies for cultural renewal and promoting cultural health in today's society.

Author Biography

Don Eberly, a nationally recognized voice on issues of citizenship and community, is the founder of several national civic initiatives, including the National Fatherhood Initiative and the Civil Society Project. His career includes almost a decade spent in Washington, D.C., serving in various key positions in Congress and the White House. He has written extensively on issues of culture and society for journals and magazines and is the author or editor of several books

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Senator Sam Brownback
Introduction: The Moral and Intellectual Framework	1	(40)
Don Eberly
Curt Smith
I. THE IMPERATIVE OF BUILDING A HEALTHY CULTURE
The Cultural Underpinnings of America's Democratic Experiment	41	(18)
Mary Ann Glendon
The Culture's Impact on World Affairs	59	(11)
Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Culture's Impact on Social Pathologies	70	(6)
Charles Krauthammer
The Culture: ``Upstream'' from Politics	76	(26)
William B. Wichterman
The Homogenization of Culture	102	(13)
Kenneth A. Myers
The Moral Grounds for Advancing Cultural Health: Whose Standards?	115	(24)
Christopher Wolfe
II. HISTORICAL MODELS FOR CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION
Victorian England: The Charity Aid Society	139	(20)
Gertrude Himmelfarb
William Wilberforce	159	(22)
Kevin Belmonte
Nineteenth-Century America	181	(19)
John G. West, Jr.
Antonio Gramsci and the Transformation of Institutions	200	(19)
John Fonte
Oasis Strategies	219	(7)
Herbert London
Radical Vision: Christopher Lasch and the Quest for Community	226	(20)
Eric Miller
The Communitarian Model	246	(14)
Amitai Etzioni
Minister to Freedom: The Legacy of John Witherspoon	260	(20)
Joseph Loconte
Catholic Moral Teachings: Subsidiarity	280	(21)
T. William Boxx
III. STRATEGIES FOR CULTURAL RENEWAL
Mass Social Movements: Essays by Movement Organizers and Scholars
Fatherhood	301	(10)
Wade F. Horn
Character and Ethics	311	(12)
Thomas Lickona
Marriage	323	(9)
David Poenoe
Faith-based Charities	332	(15)
Amy L. Sherman
The Reformation of Manners	347	(10)
Don Eberly
Teen Abstinence	357	(11)
Elayne Glover Bennett
Courtship	368	(12)
Leon Kass
Sexual Ethics	380	(14)
Joe McIlhaney
Community Revitalization	394	(22)
Stephen Goldsmith
The Demand Side of Television	416	(8)
Michael Medved
The Supply Side of Television and Film	424	(26)
David G. Myers
Technology and the Internet	450	(11)
Elizabeth L. Haynes
Fashion	461	(16)
Cherie S. Harder
Reform of Professions and Elite Fields
The Professions	477	(8)
Curt Smith
Journalism	485	(13)
Terry Mattingly
Bioethics	498	(9)
Wesley J. Smith
The Arts	507	(8)
Elizabeth Lurie
An Overview of Academia	515	(12)
Stephen H. Balch
The Humanities	527	(11)
Robert Royal
Contributors	538