Religion and politics in the United States / Kenneth D. Wald and Allison Calhoun-Brown
- Author
- Wald, Kenneth D.
- Published
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2011]
- Copyright Date
- ©2011
- Edition
- 6th ed.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 455 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Calhoun-Brown, Allison, 1966-
- Contents
- 1. A Secular Society? -- The Puzzle of Religious vitality -- The Presistence of Religion -- Stability or Change? -- Possible Explanations -- Why the United States? -- 2. Religion in the American Context -- Understanding Religion -- Patterns of Religious Affiliation -- Basic Political Tendencies -- 3. Religion and American Political Culture -- The Puritan Imprint on Colonial Thought -- Covenant Theology and the Right to Revolt -- Puritanism and Democracy: A Qualification -- "Total Depravity" and Institutional Restraint -- One Nation under God: A Civil Religion -- Civil Religion as a Double-Edged Sword -- One of Many Influences -- 4. Religion and the State -- The Genesis of Church-State Conflict -- Overview of Church-State Relations -- How Far Can Government Go? -- The Judicial Record -- The Separationist Era (1940s-1970s) -- The Accommodationist Era -- The Politics of Church-State Relations -- The Constitutional Revolution in Perspective -- 5. Mobilizing Religious Interests -- Studying Religious Interests -- Establishing Motive -- Establishing Means -- 6. Religion and Political Action -- Religious Cultural Environment -- Institutional Contexts -- Partisan Political Alignments -- Influential Allies -- Policy Domain -- 7. Religion and Public Opinion -- Economic Liberalism -- Moral-Cultural Issues -- Social Justice -- Foreign Policy -- What Culture War? -- 8. The Political Mobilization of Evangelical Protestants -- The Political Background -- Roots of the "New Christian Right" -- Building a National Movement -- Evangelical Political Action -- Organizational Transformation: The Second Generation -- Theories of Evangelical Mobilization -- The Impact of the Christian Right -- The C9onsequences for Public Policy -- Good Times? The Christian Right and the Bush Administration -- The Christian Right as a Mass Movement -- 9. Continuity and Change in the REligious Center: Catholics, Mainline Protestants, and Jews -- Catholicism: Conflicting Political Impulses -- The Cionservative Political Heritage -- The Transformation of Catholic Attidues -- Abortion: The Catholic Response -- Is Abortion a Catholic Issue? -- The Political Traditions of Mainline Protestants -- Mainline Activism: Sources and Reactions -- American Jews -- 10. Religion and the Politics of Ethnic and Religious Minorities -- African American Protestants -- Latino Catholics and Protestants -- Muslim Americans -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- Other Faith Traditions -- 11. The Other Minorities: Women and Gay People -- Women, Religion, and Politics -- HOmosexuals -- Religion and Homosexuality -- 12. Religion and American Political Life -- The Case against Religious Influence in Politics -- Assessing the Evidence -- The Case for Religion in Politics -- Religion in Public Conversation.
- Summary
- ""I look forward to each new edition of this text. I have long recommended it to undergraduate and graduate students and to colleagues who want to better understand the relationship between religion and politics in the United States. Now a classic has gotten even better, with expanded coverage of religion and gender politics and the politics of sexual diversity. I recommend this highly to political scientists, sociologists, historians, and anyone interested in the myriad ways that politics and religion influence one another."---Clyde Wilcox, Georgetown University" ""Wald and Calhoun-Brown's book provides the reader with an in-depth, comprehensive, and thoughtful discussion of the saliency of religion in American politics. While the text is about religion and politics within the United States, insightful dialogue of the centrality and complexity of religious activism in Western liberal cultures provides the reader with a useful comparative framework."---Ronald E. Brown, Wayne State University" ""Long the standard by which other volumes on religion and politics are measured, this new edition continues to provide not only up-to-date coverage but an excellent breadth and depth of such coverage as well."---Corwin Smidt, Calvin College" "This sixth edition of Religion and Politics in the United States offers a comprehensive account of the role of religious ideas, institutions, and communities in American life. Through a detailed review of the political attitudes and behavior of major religious and minority faith traditions, the book establishes that religion continues to be a major part of the American cultural and political milieu while explaining that it must interact with many other factors to influence political outcomes in the United States. This edition also reviews the role of religion in the 2008 election and includes fully up-to-date coverage of how religion informs the civil rights struggles of women and gay Americans."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781442201514 (cloth : alk. paper)
1442201517 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781442201521 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1442201525 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781442201538 (electronic)
1442201533 (electronic) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Beaver copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2010.
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