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LEADER: 04039cam a22003494a 4500
001 2006007439
003 DLC
005 20090709181012.0
008 060302s2007 mdua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2006007439
020 $a0742540405 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780742540408 (cloth : alk. paper)
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocm64624852
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050 00 $aBL2525$b.W35 2007
082 00 $a322/.10973090511$222
100 1 $aWald, Kenneth D.
245 10 $aReligion and politics in the United States /$cKenneth D. Wald and Allison Calhoun-Brown.
250 $a5th ed.
260 $aLanham, Md. :$bRowman & Littlefield Publishers,$cc2007.
300 $axiv, 445 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 373-438) and index.
505 0 $aA secular society -- The puzzle of religious vitality -- The persistence of religion -- Stability or change? -- Possible explanations -- Why the United States? -- Religion in the American context -- Understanding religion -- Patterns of religious affiliation -- Basic political tendencies -- Religion and american political culture -- The Puritan imprint on colonial thought -- Covenant theology and the right to revolt -- Puritanism and democracy : a qualification -- "Total depravity" and institutional restraint -- One nation under God : a civil religion -- Civil religion as a double-edged sword -- One of many influences -- Religion and the state -- The genesis of church-state conflict -- Overview of church-state relations -- How far can government go? -- The judicial record -- The separationist period -- The accomodationist era -- The politics of church-state relations -- The constitutional revolution in perspective -- Mobilizing religious interests -- Studying religious interests -- Establishing motive -- Establishing means -- Religion and political action -- Religious cultural environment -- Institutional contexts -- Partisan political alignments -- Influential allies -- Policy domain -- Religion and public opinion -- Economic liberalism -- Moral-cultural issues -- Social justice -- Foreign policy -- What culture war? -- The political mobilization of evangelical Protestants -- The political background -- Roots of the "new christian right" -- Building a national movement -- Evangelical political action -- Organizational transformation : the second generation -- Theories of evangelical mobilization -- The impact of the Christian right -- The consequences for public policy -- Good times? : the Christian Right and the Bush administration -- The Christian Right as a mass movement -- Continuity and change in the religious center : Catholics, mainline Protestants and Jews -- Catholicism : conflicting political impulses -- The conservative political heritage -- The transformation of Catholic attitudes -- Abortion : the Catholic response -- Is abortion a Catholic issue? -- The political traditions of mainline Protestants -- Mainline activism : sources and reactions -- American Jews -- Religion and the politics of ethnic and religious minorities -- African-American Protestants -- Latino Catholics and Protestants -- Muslim Americans -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Other faith traditions -- The other minorities : women and gay people -- Women, religion and politics -- Homosexuals -- Religion and homosexuality -- Religion and American political life -- The case against religious influence in politics -- Assessing the evidence -- The case for religion in politics -- Religion in public conversation.
650 0 $aReligion and politics$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xReligion$y1960-
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y2001-2009.
700 1 $aCalhoun-Brown, Allison,$d1966-
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006007439.html