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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818779303321

Titolo

Faith, morality, and civil society / / edited by Dale McConkey and Peter Augustine Lawler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2003]

©2003

ISBN

9786613926579

0-7391-5494-X

1-283-61412-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Applications of political theory

Disciplina

291.1/7

Soggetti

Religion and civil society - United States

Religious ethics - United States

United States Religion 1960-

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; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Potential for Pluralism: Religious Responses to the Triumph of Theory and Method in American Academic Culture; Chapter 2: Neo-Calvinist Social Thought and Civic Education; Chapter 3: The Principle of Subsidiarity and the Agrarian Ideal; Chapter 4: The Varieties of Democratic Experience; Chapter 5: The Changing Landscape of Religion and Politics in America: The 2000 Presidential Election; Chapter 6: Holy Books, Not Pocketbooks: Religious and Cultural Influences on the 2000 Presidential Election

Chapter 7: Religious Civility, Civil Society, and Charitable Choice: Faith-Based Poverty Relief in the Post-Welfare EraChapter 8: Speech, Not Religion: The Dilemma of Religious Conservatives in the Public Square; Chapter 9: Faith, Tolerance, and Civil Society; Chapter 10: Aliens and Citizens: Competing Models of Political Involvement in Contemporary Christian Social Ethics; Chapter 11: Inverted Morality; Chapter 12: From Virtues to Values: Some Opening Thoughts; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Editors Dale McConkey and Peter Augustine Lawler explore the



contributions that religious faith and morality can make to a civil society.