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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450201503321

Titolo

One electorate under God? [[electronic resource] ] : a dialogue on religion and American politics / / E.J. Dionne, Jr., Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Kayla M. Drogosz, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2004

ISBN

1-280-81298-2

9786610812981

0-8157-9657-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

The Pew Forum dialogues on religion and public life

Altri autori (Persone)

DionneE. J

ElshtainJean Bethke <1941->

DrogoszKayla Meltzer

Disciplina

322/.1/0973

Soggetti

Religion and politics - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; How Would God Vote?  An Introduction; In the American Catholic Tradition of Realism; A Conservative Christian's View on Public Life; Continuing the Conversation; What is a Christian to Do?; Religion, Politics, and the American Experience; The Conservatory of Virtue; The Religious Left, Too Often Left Out; American Politics and the Dissenting Protestant Tradition; How Niebuhr Helps Us Kick the Secularlist Habit:  A Six-Step Program; Once More, The Cross and the Flag; Common Grace, Natural Law, and the Public Arena; Faithful Consensus

Rendering to Caesar and to GodGod Talk and the Citizen-Believer; The Politics of Religion in a Sinful World; Cuomological Fallacies; The Puritans and American Politics; Two Faces of Religious Pluralism in American Politics; Religion, Politics, and a Changing America; Protecting Religion from Politics; Faith and Politics; The Fate of the Christian Left; The Myth of Secularism; The Spiritual Dimension of Societal Life; Governing Religion; Particularist Religion in a Pluralist Political Arena; Voting Not to Vote; Religion, Faith, and Elections;



Reasoning Together; Faith in Public Office

The Personalization of PoliticsThe Role of Religion in Electoral Politics; Mobilizing Political Participation; Religions and the American Religion; Religious Liberty and the American Founding; Thoughts on Religion and Politics; Belief and Power; Dignity in Work as an Article of Faith; It's the Content that Counts; Faith and the Public Square; Faith Communities and American Democracy; Faith, Freedom, and Toleration; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Seeks to promote a greater understanding of American thinking about faith and public office in a pluralistic society.