| Description |
251 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: is God's work our work?: faith, doubt, and radical amazement -- Is religion conservative or progressive? (or both?) -- Why the culture war is the wrong war: religion, values, and American politics -- What are the "values" issues?: economics, social justice, and the struggle over morality -- Selling religion short: when ideology is not enough -- John Paul, Benedict, and the Catholic future -- What happened to the seamless garment?: the agony of liberal Catholicism -- Solidarity, liberty, and religion's true calling |
| Summary |
"In Souled Out, journalist and commentator E. J. Dionne explains why the era of the Religious Right - and the crude exploitation of faith for political advantage - is over. Souled Out shows that the end of the Religious Right doesn't signal the decline of evangelical Christianity but rather its disentanglement from a political machine that sold it out to a narrow electoral agenda of such causes as opposition to gay marriage and abortion. With portraits of leading contemporary religious figures from Rick Warren and Richard Cizik to John Paul II and Benedict XVI, Dionne shows that our great religions have always preached a broad message of hope for more just human arrangements and refused to be mere props for the powers that be. Dionne also argues that the new atheist writers should be seen as a gift to believers, a demand that they live up to their proclaimed values and embrace scientific and philosophical inquiry in a spirit of "intellectual solidarity.""--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Christianity and politics -- United States.
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Religious right -- United States.
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Christian conservatism -- United States.
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| LC no. |
2007045172 |
| ISBN |
9780691134581 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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