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Autore: | DiIulio John J |
Titolo: | Godly republic [[electronic resource] ] : a centrist civic blueprint for America's faith-based future / / John J. DiIulio, Jr |
Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, CA, : University of California Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina: | 322/.10973 |
Soggetto topico: | Christianity and politics - United States |
Religion and politics - United States | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Church history |
Soggetto non controllato: | academic |
afterlife | |
american history | |
catholic | |
catholicism | |
christian faith | |
christian living | |
christian | |
christianity | |
civic | |
community initiatives | |
democracy | |
democrat | |
faith based community | |
faith based | |
faith | |
heaven | |
morals | |
political scholar | |
political | |
politics | |
religious identity | |
scholarly | |
televangelist | |
united states history | |
us history | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Founders' Faithful Consensus -- 2. The Court's Neutrality Doctrine -- 3. The People's Charitable Choice -- 4. The President's Bipartisan Prayer -- 5. The Nation's Spiritual Capital -- 6. The Republic's Faith-Based Future -- 7. The Faith-Based Future's Blessings -- Postscript -- Appendix. The Williamsburg Charter -- Notes -- Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | "Do you know if you are going to heaven?" Shortly after being appointed the first Director of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives-the "faith czar"-John J. DiIulio Jr. was asked this question. Suddenly DiIulio, a Catholic Democrat who pioneered programs for inner-city children, was acutely aware that he was no longer a private citizen who might have humored the television evangelist standing before him. Now he was, as he recalls in his introduction-"responsible for assisting the president in faithfully upholding the Constitution . . . and faithfully acting in the public interest without regard to religious identities." Using his brief tenure in the George W. Bush administration as a springboard, this lively, informative, and entertaining book leaps into the ongoing debate over whether as a nation America is Christian or secular and to what degree church-state separation is compelled by the Constitution. Avoiding political pieties, DiIulio makes an impassioned case for a middle way. Written by a leading political scholar, Godly Republic offers a fast-paced, faith-inspired, and fact-based approach to enhancing America's civic future for one and all. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Godly republic |
ISBN: | 1-282-35940-1 |
9786612359408 | |
0-520-93451-2 | |
1-4356-0400-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910778391503321 |
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