An edition of Religion and politics in America
(2010)
Religion and politics in America
faith, culture, and strategic choices
4th ed.
by Robert Booth Fowler
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Table of Contents
Preface
Religion and political culture in America : the historical legacy
The Puritan temper
Religious freedom and pluralism
The Evangelical dimension
The populist dimension
Christianity and its major branches
The status of religion in the United Sates
The major Christian traditions and politics
Judaism, Islam, and other expressions of religious pluralism
Major non-Christian religions
Separatist religions
Other small religions
A comparative case study : Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses
Political assessments
Voting and religion in American politics
A historical review
The post-industrial era
The politics of organized religious groups
The evolution of national religious lobbies
Strategies for effective advocacy
The legislative process, compromise, and coalition building
A model of religious group effectiveness
Progressive protestant groups
Roman Catholic groups
Jewish groups
Evangelical Protestant groups
Muslim groups
The politics of religious minorities
The globalization of religious advocacy
Religious advocacy at the statehouse
Local-level advocacy
Do religious groups play a distinctive role in American democracy?
Religion and political and cultural elites
Religion and the presidency
Religion and Congress
Religion and other political elites
Religion and cultural elites
Religion, civil society, and political culture
The tension between religion and political culture
Political culture as a context for religious participation
Religion, civil society, and good citizenship
Religious politics and the legal system
Judicial politics
Key players
Factors for success
The politics of church and state
Church and state in the courts
Religious free exercise
The limits of free exercise
The politics of religious establishment
Equal access : an alternative approach to church and state
Latino and African American religion and politics
The changing status of Latino religion
Latinos in public life
African American religion and politics : toward a broader view
History and Black political attitudes
Connections between religion and politics
Islam in the African American community
Gender, religion, and politics
Gender and religion in American life
Religious women's diverging perspectives on American politics
The politics of women in the pews
The politics of women clergy
Theories of religion, culture, and American politics
Culture wars
The secularization thesis
The culture shift thesis
Religion
The unconventional partners thesis
Populism
The market thesis, religious pluralism, and politics
Toward the future.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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