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Religion and politics in the United States / Kenneth D. Wald and Allison Calhoun-Brown.
LIBRA BL2525 .W35 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wald, Kenneth D., author.
- Calhoun-Brown, Allison, 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and politics--United States--History--21st century.
- Religion and politics.
- History.
- United States--Religion--1960-.
- United States.
- Religion.
- United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 481 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Seventh edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
- Summary:
- From marriage equality to gun control to immigration reform and the threat of war, religion plays a fascinating and crucial role in our nation's political process and in our culture at large. Now in its seventh edition, Religion and Politics in the United States includes analyses of the nation's most pressing political matters regarding religious freedom and the ways in which that essential constitutional freedom situates itself within modern America. This book also explores the ways in which religion has affected the orientation of partisan politics in the United States. Through a detailed review of the political attitudes and behaviors of major religious and minority faith traditions, the authors establish that religion continues to be a major part of the American cultural and political milieu, while also explaining that religion must interact with many other factors in order to influence political outcomes in the United States. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 A Secular Society? 1
- The Puzzle of Religious Vitality 4
- The Persistence of Religion 9
- Stability or Change? 14
- Possible Explanations 18
- Why the United States? 20
- 2 Religion in the American Context 23
- Understanding Religion 24
- Patterns of Religious Affiliation 26
- Basic Political Tendencies 32
- Conclusion 37
- 3 Religion and American Political Culture 39
- The Puritan Imprint on Colonial Thought 40
- Covenant Theology and the Right to Revolt 43
- Puritanism and Democracy: A Qualification 46
- "Total Depravity" and Institutional Restraint 48
- One Nation under God: A Civil Religion 54
- Civil Religion as a Double-Edged Sword 60
- One of Many Influences 62
- 4 Religion and the State 55
- The Genesis of Church-State Conflict 66
- Overview of Church-State Relations 69
- How Far Can Government Go? 75
- The Judicial Record 80
- The Separationist Era (1940s-1970s) 88
- The Accomodationist Era 95
- The Politics of Church-State Relations 100
- The Constitutional Revolution in Perspective 104
- The Cutting Edge 105
- 5 Mobilizing Religious Interests 109
- Studying Religious Interests 111
- Establishing Motive 113
- Establishing Means 129
- Conclusion 141
- 6 Religion and Political Action 143
- Religious Cultural Environment 145
- Institutional Contexts 149
- Partisan Political Alignments 155
- Influential Allies 158
- Policy Domain 165
- Conclusion 181
- 7 Religion and Public Opinion 183
- Economic Liberalism 185
- Moral-Cultural Issues 188
- Social Justice 196
- Foreign Policy 200
- What Culture War? 202
- 8 The Political Mobilization of Evangelical Protestants 207
- The Political Background 208
- Roots of the "New Christian Right" 212
- Building a National Movement 215
- Evangelical Political Action 216
- Organizational Transformation: The Second Generation 218
- Theories of Evangelical Mobilization 221
- The Impact of the Christian Right 227
- The Consequences for Public Policy 228
- Good Times? The Christian Right and the Bush Administration 229
- Assessing the Christian Right 230
- Strategic Realities 234
- Conclusion 239
- 9 Continuity and Change in the Religious Center 241
- Catholicism: Conflicting Political Impulses 243
- The Conservative Political Heritage 244
- The Transformation of Catholic Attitudes 247
- Abortion: The Catholic Response 252
- Is Abortion a Catholic Issue? 255
- The Political Traditions of Mainline Protestants 263
- Mainline Activism: Sources and Reactions 267
- American Jews 270
- 10 Religion and the Politics of Ethnic and Religious Minorities 279
- African American Protestants 280
- Latino Catholics and Protestants 291
- Muslim Americans 297
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 305
- Other Faith Traditions 311
- Conclusion 314
- 11 The Other Minorities 315
- Women, Religion, and Politics 318
- Homosexuals 331
- Religion and Homosexuality 333
- Conclusion 349
- 12 Religion and American Political Life 351
- The Case against Religious Influence in Politics 352
- Assessing the Evidence 358
- The Case for Religion in Politics 364
- Religion in Public Conversation 373.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442225534
- 144222553X
- 9781442225541
- 1442225548
- OCLC:
- 865452340
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