Religion and Politics in the United StatesIn this edition, updated to reflect recent events and trends, Wald (political science, U. of Florida, Gainesville) and Calhoun-Brown (political science, Georgia State U., Atlanta) show how religious ideas, institutions, movements and communities figure in American political life. They cover whether the US is in fact a secular society, the relations |
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Contents
A Secular Society? | xiii |
THE PUZZLE OF RELIGIOUS VITALITY | 2 |
THE PERSISTENCE OF RELIGION | 6 |
STABILITY OR CHANGE? | 11 |
POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS | 14 |
WHY THE UNITED STATES? | 17 |
Religion in the American Context | 22 |
UNDERSTANDING RELIGION | 23 |
FOREIGN POLICY | 197 |
WHAT CULTURE WAR? | 199 |
The Political Mobilization of Evangelical Protestants | 204 |
THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND | 205 |
ROOTS OF THE NEW CHRISTIAN RIGHT | 209 |
BUILDING A NATIONAL MOVEMENT | 212 |
EVANGELICAL POLITICAL ACTION | 214 |
THE SECOND GENERATION | 215 |
PATTERNS OF RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION | 25 |
BASIC POLITICAL TENDENCIES | 30 |
Religion and American Political Culture | 37 |
THE PURITAN IMPRINT ON COLONIAL THOUGHT | 38 |
COVENANT THEOLOGY AND THE RIGHT TO REVOLT | 41 |
A QUALIFICATION | 44 |
TOTAL DEPRAVITY AND INSTITUTIONAL RESTRAINT | 46 |
A CIVIL RELIGION | 52 |
CIVIL RELIGION AS A DOUBLEEDGED SWORD | 57 |
ONE OF MANY INFLUENCES | 59 |
Religion and the State | 63 |
THE GENESIS OF CHURCHSTATE CONFLICT | 64 |
OVERVIEW OF CHURCHSTATE RELATIONS | 67 |
HOW FAR CAN GOVERNMENT GO? | 73 |
THE JUDICIAL RECORD | 78 |
THE SEPARATIONIST PERIOD | 85 |
THE ACCOMMODATIONIST ERA | 92 |
THE POLITICS OF CHURCHSTATE RELATIONS | 98 |
THE CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION IN PERSPECTIVE | 102 |
Mobilizing Religious Interests | 107 |
STUDYING RELIGIOUS INTERESTS | 108 |
ESTABLISHING MOTIVE | 110 |
ESTABLISHING MEANS | 127 |
Religion and Political Action | 141 |
RELIGIOUS CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT | 143 |
INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS | 147 |
PARTISAN POLITICAL ALIGNMENTS | 153 |
INFLUENTIAL ALLIES | 156 |
POLICY DOMAIN | 163 |
Religion and Public Opinion | 181 |
ECONOMIC LIBERALISM | 182 |
MORALCULTURAL ISSUES | 185 |
SOCIAL JUSTICE | 194 |
THEORIES OF EVANGELICAL MOBILIZATION | 220 |
THE IMPACT OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT | 227 |
THE CONSEQUENCES FOR PUBLIC POLICY | 228 |
GOOD TIMES? THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION | 230 |
THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT AS A MASS MOVEMENT | 231 |
Continuity and Change in the Religious Center Catholics Mainline Protestants and Jews | 245 |
CONFLICTING POLITICAL IMPULSES | 247 |
THE CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL HERITAGE | 248 |
THE TRANSFORMATION OF CATHOLIC ATTITUDES | 251 |
THE CATHOLIC RESPONSE | 256 |
IS ABORTION A CATHOLIC ISSUE? | 259 |
THE POLITICAL TRADITIONS OF MAINLINE PROTESTANTS | 265 |
SOURCES AND REACTIONS | 269 |
AMERICAN JEWS | 272 |
Religion and the Politics of Ethnic and Religious Minorities | 281 |
AFRICAN AMERICAN PROTESTANTS | 282 |
LATINO CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS | 292 |
MUSLIM AMERICANS | 298 |
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTERDAY SAINTS | 303 |
OTHER FAITH TRADITIONS | 307 |
The Other Minorities Women and Gay People | 311 |
WOMEN RELIGION AND POLITICS | 314 |
HOMOSEXUALS | 327 |
RELIGION AND HOMOSEXUALITY | 329 |
Religion and American Political Life | 346 |
THE CASE AGAINST RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE IN POLITICS | 347 |
ASSESSING THE EVIDENCE | 353 |
THE CASE FOR RELIGION IN POLITICS | 359 |
RELIGION IN PUBLIC CONVERSATION | 368 |
References | 371 |
Index | 437 |
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