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Titolo |
Religion and the American Presidency / / edited by Mark J. Rozell and Gleaves Whitney |
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Macmillan Palgrave, , [2023] |
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©2023 |
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Edizione |
[Fourth edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (409 pages) |
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Collana |
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The Evolving American Presidency Series |
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Presidents - United States - Religion |
Religion and politics - United States |
United States Politics and government |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: The Importance of Religion to Understanding the Presidency -- A Wall of Separation? -- Religion and Presidential Campaigns -- Presidential Policy Agendas and Religion -- Notes -- 2 The Faith of George Washington -- Notes -- 3 Thomas Jefferson and the Myth of Separation -- The Campaign of 1800 -- Jefferson's Presidential Rhetoric -- Public Policy -- Notes -- 4 Religion in the Life, Thought, and Presidency of James Madison -- Religion in Madison's Life and Thought -- Madison's Religious Beliefs -- Madison's Theology of Religious Freedom -- Madison's View of the Role of Religion in American Public Life -- Madison's Criticism of Government Support of Religion -- Religion and Madison's Presidencies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Lincoln's Political Religion and Religious Politics: Or, What Lincoln Teaches Us About the Proper Connection Between Religion and Politics -- Notes -- 6 "We Must Put on the Armor of God": Harry Truman and the Cold War -- Truman, Faith, and Religion -- Faith, Freedom, and the Cold War -- Faith, Freedom, and Palestine -- Faith, Freedom, and Peace -- Notes -- 7 Dwight D. Eisenhower: Civil Religion and the Cold War -- Notes -- 8 Secular Icon or Catholic Hero?: Religion and the Presidency of John F. Kennedy -- Secular Icon? -- Catholic |
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Hero? -- The Kennedy Presidency -- The Verdict -- Notes -- 9 Jimmy Carter and the Politics of Faith -- Introduction -- Religious Background -- Religion and the 1976 Campaign -- Carter as Religious National Leader -- Religion and Policy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10 Ronald Reagan's Faith and Attack on Soviet Communism -- Church Attendance -- Nelle and that Printer of Udell's -- Practical Christianity and the Cold War -- The President Versus the USSR -- Conclusion. |
Notes -- 11 The Religion of Bill Clinton -- Bill Clinton's Religion: An Apparent Paradox -- Religion in Clinton's Childhood -- From High School to the Statehouse -- Religion in the White House -- Religion in the First Clinton Administration -- Religion in the Second Clinton Administration -- Conclusions -- A Sham Religion? -- American Civil Religion? -- A Religion of Second Chances? -- Notes -- References -- 12 The Faith of George W. Bush: The Personal, Practical, and Political -- Presidential Advisers -- Certitude -- Honesty -- Policy -- Sexuality, Reproduction, and Life Issues -- Economics -- War -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 13 President Barack Obama and His Faith -- Introduction -- The 2004 Backdrop of the God Gap and the "Values Voter" -- Obama's Religious Heritage and Early Influences -- Entering the National Stage: The Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention -- Obama's "Kennedy Moment": The 2006 Call to Renewal Address -- Obama and Religion on the Campaign Trail in 2008 -- Missteps and Controversies Around Obama's Religion -- Misperceptions About Identity, Challenges with Identification: Obama's Faith in Question -- Obama and America's New Civil Religion -- Amazing Grace -- Notes -- 14 Religion and the Presidency of Donald J. Trump -- Born into Billy Graham's America -- Coming of Age with Norman Vincent Peale's Positive Thinking -- Appropriating Peale's Positive Thinking Concept -- Finding a Personal Pastor in Paula White -- Courting Evangelicals, Catholics, and Jews -- "Sealing the Deal" With Evangelicals -- Persuading Catholics and Hispanics -- Rewarding the "Court Evangelicals" -- Strengthening the "Special Relationship" -- Sending Mixed Messages to the Muslim World -- Defending Israel's Right to Jerusalem -- Pleasing Religious Conservatives with Executive Appointments -- Changing Religious Norms -- Notes. |
15 Joe Biden: America's Second Catholic President -- Joe Biden's Youth and the Catholic Church, 1942-1966 -- Catholicism and Biden's Personal and Professional Challenges, 1966-1974 -- Biden's Navigation of the Abortion Issue During the 1970s and 1980s -- A Catholic in the White House, Again? 1988-2008 -- Biomedical Ethics and Gay Marriage in the Obama-Biden Administration, 2009-2017 -- Civil Religion in the 2020 Campaign -- President Biden and Pope Francis: The Best-Known Catholics in the World -- Biden and the Catholic Church in the Twenty-First-Century United States -- Notes -- Index. |
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