Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs by An... - 9781479817924

New York University Press

Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on DrugsAuthor(s): Andrew Monteith\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479817924, 978-1479817924\nSynopsis\nRecovers the religious origins of the War on Drugs\n Many 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.\n 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 expressedand still do express.