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Author Heclo, Hugh, author.

Title Christianity and American democracy / Hugh Heclo ; with responses by Mary Jo Bane, Michael Kazin, Alan Wolfe
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2007]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 299 pages)
Series The Alexis de Tocqueville lectures on American politics
Alexis de Tocqueville lectures on American politics.
Contents Christianity and democracy in America / Hugh Heclo -- Democracy and Catholic Christianity in America / Mary Jo Bane -- Pluralism is hard work, and the work is never done / Michael Kazin -- Whose Christianity? Whose Democracy? / Alan Wolfe -- Reconsidering Christianity and American democracy / Hugh Heclo
Summary Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Heclo offers a panoramic view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other over the years, and how their relationship is changing in the present day. Responding to his challenging argument, Mary Jo Bane, Michael Kazin, and Alan Wolfe criticize, qualify, and amend it. The result is a lively debate about a momentous tension in American public life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-283) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Christianity and politics -- United States
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy.
Christianity and politics
Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Bane, Mary Jo.
Kazin, Michael, 1948-
Wolfe, Alan, 1942-
ISBN 9780674027053
0674027051
0674032306
9780674032309