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Religion And Politics in the United States

by: Wald, Kenneth D.; Calhoun-brown, Allison

Religion And Politics in the United States

by: Wald, Kenneth D.; Calhoun-brown, Allison

ISBN 13:
9780742540415
ISBN 10:
0742540413
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 07/01/2006
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

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Summary

Religion and Politics in the United States, Fifth Edition, offers a comprehensive account of the role of religious ideas, institutions, and communities in American public life.

List of Tables and Figures

Preface

1 A Secular Society

(23)

The Puzzle of Religious Vitality

(4)

The Persistence of Religion

(5)

Stability or Change?

(3)

Possible Explanations

(3)

Why the United States?

(5)

2 Religion in the American Context

(15)

Understanding Religion

(2)

Patterns of Religious Affiliation

(5)

Basic Political Tendencies

(7)

3 Religion and American Political Culture

(26)

The Puritan Imprint on Colonial Thought

(3)

Covenant Theology and the Right to Revolt

(3)

Puritanism and Democracy: A Qualification

(2)

"Total Depravity" and Institutional Restraint

(6)

One Nation under God: A Civil Religion

(5)

Civil Religion as a Double-Edged Sword

(2)

One of Many Influences

(4)

4 Religion and the State

(44)

The Genesis of Church-State Conflict

(3)

Overview of Church-State Relations

(7)

How Far Can Government Go?

(5)

The Judicial Record

(6)

The Separationist Period

(8)

The Accomodationist Era

(5)

The Politics of Church-State Relations

100

(4)

The Constitutional Revolution in Perspective

104

(5)

5 Mobilizing Religious Interests

109

(34)

Studying Religious Interests

110

(2)

Establishing Motive

112

(17)

Establishing Means

129

(14)

6 Religion and Political Action

143

(40)

Religious Cultural Environment

145

(4)

Institutional Contexts

149

(6)

Partisan Political Alignments

155

(3)

Influential Allies

158

(7)

Policy Domain

165

(18)

7 Religion and Public Opinion

183

(23)

Economic Liberalism

184

(3)

Moral-Cultural Issues

187

(9)

Social Justice

196

(3)

Foreign Policy

199

(2)

What Culture War?

201

(5)

8 The Political Mobilization of Evangelical Protestants

206

(41)

The Political Background

207

(4)

Roots of the "New Christian Right"

211

(3)

Building a National Movement

214

(2)

Evangelical Political Action

216

(1)

Organizational Transformation: The Second Generation

217

(5)

Theories of Evangelical Mobilization

222

(7)

The Impact of the Christian Right

229

(1)

The Consequences for Public Policy

230

(2)

Good Times? The Christian Right and the Bush Administration

232

(1)

The Christian Right as a Mass Movement

233

(14)

9 Continuity and Change in the Religious Center: Catholics, Mainline Protestants, and Jews

247

(36)

Catholicism: Conflicting Political Impulses

249

(1)

The Conservative Political Heritage

250

(3)

The Transformation of Catholic Attitudes

253

(5)

Abortion: The Catholic Response

258

(3)

Is Abortion a Catholic Issue?

261

(6)

The Political Traditions of Mainline Protestants

267

(4)

Mainline Activism: Sources and Reactions

271

(3)

American Jews

274

(9)

10 Religion and the Politics of Ethnic and Religious Minorities

283

(30)

African American Protestants

284

(10)

Latino Catholics and Protestants

294

(6)

Muslim Americans

300

(5)

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

305

(4)

Other Faith Traditions

309

(4)

11 The Other Minorities: Women and Gay People

313

(35)

Women, Religion, and Politics

316

(13)

Homosexuals

329

(2)

Religion and Homosexuality

331

(17)

12 Religion and American Political Life

348

(25)

The Case against Religious Influence in Politics

349

(6)

Assessing the Evidence

355

(6)

The Case for Religion in Politics

361

(9)

Religion in Public Conversation

370

(3)

References

373

(66)

Index

439

(8)

About the Authors

447

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Religion And Politics in the United States

Religion And Politics in the United States

9780742540415

0742540413

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