Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs / Andrew Monteith.
Monteith, Andrew, author.
2023
BR515 .M566 2023
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Title Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs / Andrew Monteith.
Author Monteith, Andrew, author.
ISBN 9781479817993
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479817993.001.0001
Published New York, NY : New York University Press, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
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Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9781479817993.001.0001 doi
Call Number BR515 .M566 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 230/.0440973
Summary 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 linked drug use with immorality.Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs argues that this early drug war was deeply rooted in Christian impulses. While many scholars understand Prohibition to have been a Protestant undertaking, it is considerably less common to consider the War on Drugs this way, in part because racism has understandably been the focal point of discussions of the drug war. Antidrug activists expressed-and still do express--blatant white supremacist and nativist motives. Yet this book argues that that racism was intertwined with religious impulses. Reformers pursued the "civilizing mission," a wide-ranging project that sought to protect "child races" from harmful influences while remodeling their cultures to look like Europe and the United States. Most reformers saw Christianity as essential to civilization and missionaries felt that banning drugs would encourage religious conversion and progress. This compelling work of scholarship radically reshapes our understanding of one of the longest and most damaging conflicts in modern American history, making the case that we cannot understand the War on Drugs unless we understand its religious origins.
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EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2023 English
EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2023
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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
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