Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs /

Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs / / Andrew Monteith.

Recovers the religious origins of the War on DrugsMany people view the War on Drugs as a contemporary phenomenon invented by the Nixon administration. But as this new book shows, the conflict actually began more than a century before, when American Protestants began the temperance movement and linke...

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Monteith, Andrew,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Protestant Moralities, Substance Use, and the Millennial Kingdom
  • 1. Christian Temperance, Millennial Progress, and the Immorality of Addiction
  • 2. Sin, Addiction, and Biomorality
  • 3. Degeneracy, Eugenics, and the Great American Race
  • 4. US Colonialism and Substance Use Prohibition
  • 5. Protestants, Colonialism, and International Drug Reform
  • 6. The Products of a Moral Panic
  • Conclusion: The Long Arm of Protestant Hegemony
  • Acknowledgments
  • Archival Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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