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The one and the many : America's struggle for the common good / Martin E. Marty.
LIBRA JK1764 .M37 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marty, Martin E., 1928-2025
- Series:
- Joanna Jackson Goldman memorial lecture on American civilization and government
- The Joanna Jackson Goldman memorial lecture on American civilization and government
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political participation--United States.
- Political participation.
- United States.
- Associations, institutions, etc--United States.
- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Community life--United States.
- Community life.
- Public interest--United States.
- Public interest.
- Common good.
- Physical Description:
- 244 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- A world-renowned authority on religion and ethics in America, Martin Marty gives a judicious account of how our body politic has been torn between the imperative of one one nation undivided and the separate urgings of distinct identitiesracial, ethnic, religious, gendered, ideological, economicclaiming grievances. Issuing an urgent call for repair, Marty envisions steps we might take to cary America past this new turbulence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-238) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674638271
- OCLC:
- 35822627
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