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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455841903321

Autore

Reichley James

Titolo

Faith in politics [[electronic resource] /] / A. James Reichley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8157-7372-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (439 p.)

Disciplina

322/.1/0973

Soggetti

Religion and politics - United States - History

Political science - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: The Religious Factor 1 The Problem Defined 2 A Common Medium 4 Religion, Politics, and Human Values 10 A Typology of Value Systems 11 Egoism 13 Collectivism 18 Monism 22 Absolutism 27 Ecstasism 36 Civil Humanism 41 Transcendent Idealism 47 Intentions of the Founders 53 City on a Hill 54 Degrees of Diversity 73 The American Enlightenment 84 A New Nation 94 Interpreting the First Amendment 113 A New Doctrine of Rights 114 The Free Exercise Clause 124 The Establishment Clause 131 Religious Freedom 156 Religion and Political Action, 1790 to 1963 159 A Pluralist Society 161 First Alignment 168 An Immigrant Church 172 The Party of Conscience 178 Religion and the Industrial Age 193 The New Deal Coalition 208 Time of Turmoil, 1964 to 1985 231 The Churches Come to Washington 232 The Religious New Left 243 Mainline Protestants in Crisis 250 Black Activism 265 Catholics in Ferment 268 The Jewish Dilemma 282 Revolt of the Evangelicals 289 Prophetic Realism 303 Faith in Action, 1986 to 2002 309 The African American Church: Challenging Marginality 310 Diverging Catholics 314 Still Liberal Jews 323 Change and Continuity on the Religious Right 329 The Protestant Ethic 336 The Values Election 343 A New Beginning? 345 Religion and Democracy 351 The Moral Foundation of Democracy 352 The Role of Organized Religion 359 "A Religious People" 365.