Faith, morality, and civil society / edited by Dale McConkey and Peter Augustine Lawler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McConkey, Dale, 1965-

Lawler, Peter Augustine.

Series:

Applications of political theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology--United States.

Religion and sociology.

United States.

Religion and politics--United States.

Religion and politics.

United States--Religion--1960-.

Religion.

Religious ethics.

Physical Description:

xvii, 232 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2002]

Summary:

Editors Dale McConkey and Peter Augustine Lawler explore the contributions that religious faith and morality can make to a civil society.

Contents:

1. The Potential for Pluralism: Religious Responses to the Triumph of Theory and Method in American Academic Culture / Alan Wolfe 1

2. Neo-Calvinist Social Thought and Civic Education / Kevin Pybas 17

3. The Principle of Subsidiarity and the Agrarian Ideal / Joshua P. Hochschild 37

4. The Varieties of Democratic Experience / Michael Bailey 65

5. The Changing Landscape of Religion and Politics in America: The 2000 Presidential Election / Beverly Gaddy 87

6. Holy Books, Not Pocketbooks: Religious and Cultural Influences on the 2000 Presidential Election / Dale McConkey 105

7. Religious Civility, Civil Society, and Charitable Choice: Faith-Based Poverty Relief in the Post-Welfare Era / John P. Bartkowski, Helen A. Regis 127

8. Speech, Not Religion: The Dilemma of Religious Conservatives in the Public Square / Steven P. Brown 145

9. Faith, Tolerance, and Civil Society / Beverly Gaddy 159

10. Aliens and Citizens: Competing Models of Political Involvement in Contemporary Christian Social Ethics / David Oki Ahearn 197

11. Inverted Morality / Brad Lowell Stone 209

12. From Virtues to Values: Some Opening Thoughts / Alan Woolfolk 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0739104829

0739104837

OCLC:

50477119