Paul DiMaggio, Wendy Cadge, Lynn Robinson and Brian Steensland
ABSTRACT
How would we characterize the relationship between religion and the arts in
the Philadelphia area between 1965 and 1997? The late 1980s and early 1990s
in Philadelphia followed a decade that was unusually free of contention between
religion and the arts. In comparison to the 1970s and early 1980s, religious
participation in cultural conflict was not particularly high during the "culture-war"
era. However, religious discourse as opposed to participation did play a role
in more controversies during the late 1980s and 1990s. The findings also suggest
that after 1986 religious actors and their allies were far more likely to employ
the tools of social-movement mobilization and to connect their own claims to
national social movements or campaigns.