Religion returns to the public square : faith and policy in America / edited by Hugh Heclo and Wilfred M. McClay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heclo, Hugh.

McClay, Wilfred M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and politics--United States.

Religion and politics.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxi, 382 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2003]

Summary:

Despite talk of a naked public square, religion has never really lost its place in American public life. As the 21st century opened, it was re-emerging in unexpected and paradoxical ways. Religious institutions were considered for expanded roles in welfare and education, at the same time that the limits of religious pluralism - as, for example, in the relation of Islam to American values - became a question of urgent public concern.

Contents:

An introduction to religion and public policy / Hugh Heclo

Two concepts of secularism / Wilfred M. McClay

The religious conscience and the state in U.S. constitutional law, 1789-2001 / Charles J. Reid, Jr.

What is a public religion? / José Casanova

American democracy and the politics of faith / Wilson Carey McWilliams

Faith in politics / A. James Reichley

Mainstream Protestantism, "conservative" religion, and civil society / D.G. Hart

American Catholicism, Catholic Charities USA, and welfare reform / John A. Coleman

Charitable choice : bringing religion back into American welfare / Stanley W.Carlson-Thies

Public education changes partners / Charles Glenn

With God on their side : religion and U.S. foreign policy / William Martin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0801871948

0801871956

OCLC:

50844010