LEADER 05990nam 2200505 450 001 9910799485503321 005 20240119114053.0 010 $a3-031-40758-X 035 $a(CKB)29449563400041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31051212 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31051212 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929449563400041 100 $a20240119d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aReligion and the American Presidency /$fedited by Mark J. Rozell and Gleaves Whitney 205 $aFourth edition. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cMacmillan Palgrave,$d[2023] 210 4$d©2023 215 $a1 online resource (409 pages) 225 1 $aThe Evolving American Presidency Series 311 08$a9783031407574 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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 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. 327 $aNotes -- 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. 327 $a15 Joe Biden: America's Second Catholic President -- Joe Biden's Youth and the Catholic Church, 1942-1966 -- Catholicism and Biden's Personal and Professional Challenges, 1966-1974 -- Biden's Navigation of the Abortion Issue During the 1970s and 1980s -- A Catholic in the White House, Again? 1988-2008 -- Biomedical Ethics and Gay Marriage in the Obama-Biden Administration, 2009-2017 -- Civil Religion in the 2020 Campaign -- President Biden and Pope Francis: The Best-Known Catholics in the World -- Biden and the Catholic Church in the Twenty-First-Century United States -- Notes -- Index. 410 4$aThe Evolving American Presidency Series 606 $aPresidents$zUnited States$xReligion 606 $aReligion and politics$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 615 0$aPresidents$xReligion. 615 0$aReligion and politics 676 $a973.099 702 $aRozell$b Mark J. 702 $aWhitney$b Gleaves 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910799485503321 996 $aReligion and the American Presidency$92087486 997 $aUNINA