Religion and American politics : from the colonial period to the 21st century / edited by Mark A Noll and Luke E. Harlow.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Noll, Mark A., 1946-
• Harlow, Luke E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Christianity and politics--United States--History.
• United States--Church history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (521 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do religion and politics interact in America? How has that relationship changed over time? Why have American religious and political thought sometimes developed along a parallell course while at other times they have moved in opposite directions? These are among the many important and fascinating questions addressed in this volume. Originally published in 1990 as Religion and American Politics: From The Colonial Period to the 1980's (4921 paperback copies sold), this book offers the first comprehensive survey of the relationship between religion and politics in America. It features a stellar...

Contents:

• CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; A PROTESTANT ERA: COLONIAL ERA TO THE CIVIL WAR; 1 Religion and Politics in America from the First Settlements to the Civil War; 2 Religion and Ideological Change in the American Revolution; 3 Rhetoric and Reality in the Early Republic: The Case of the Federalist Clergy; 4 Religion, Government, and Power in the New American Nation; 5 The Democratization of Christianity and the Character of American Politics; 6 Religion and Politics in the Antebellum North; 7 Ethnoreligious Political Behavior in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Voting, Values, Cultures
• 8 Methodists, Politics, and the Coming of the American Civil War NEW CONFIGURATIONS; 9 Slavery, Race, and Political Ideology in the White Christian South Before and After the Civil War; 10 Protestant Theological Tensions and Political Styles in the Progressive Period; 11 Roman Catholics and American Politics, 1900-1960: Altered Circumstances, Continuing Patterns; TUMULTS AND REALIGNMENTS SINCE WORLD WAR II; 12 Faith Transformed: Religion and American Politics from FDR to George W. Bush; 13 Evangelicalism Becomes Southern, Politics Becomes Evangelical: From FDR to Ronald Reagan
• 14 Viewed in Black and White: Conservative Protestantism, Racial Issues, and Oppositional Politics 15 Roman Catholics and American Politics, 1960-2004; 16 Women, Politics, and Religion; REFLECTIONS; 17 Contemporary Views from Abroad; A. Why It Is Difficult for European Observers to Understand the Relationship between American Politics and Religion in the Twenty-First Century; B. American Civil Religion and George W. Bush; C. Crusade for Freedom, Exportation of the American Model, and George W. Bush's Second Inaugural Address
• D. For God's Sake? American Religion and Politics Viewed from Denmark E. Australian Perspectives on American Religion and Politics in the Bush Era; 18 Canadian Counterpoint; 19 Quid Obscurum: The Changing Terrain of Church-State Relations; 20 Religion, Politics, and the Search for an American Consensus; INDEX;

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:

• 0-19-029559-7
• 0-19-531715-7
• 1-4356-0592-6
• 9786611165178
• 0-19-804316-3
• 1-281-16517-4

OCLC:

476244408