| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 502 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Mark A. Noll -- A Protestant Era : Colonial Era to the Civil War -- 1. Religion and politics in America from the first settlements to the Civil War / John M. Murrin -- 2. Religion and ideological change in the American Revolution / Ruth H. Bloch -- 3. Rhetoric and reality in the early republic : the case of the Federalist clergy / Harry S. Stout -- 4. Religion, government, and power in the new American nation / John F. Wilson -- 5. The democratization of Christianity and the character of American politics / Nathan O. Hatch -- 6. Religion and politics in the antebellum North / Daniel Walker Howe -- 7. Ethnoreligious political behavior in the mid-nineteenth century : voting, values, cultures / Robert P. Swierenga -- 8. Methodists, politics, and the coming of the American Civil War / Richard Cawardine -- New Configurations -- 9. Slavery, race, and political ideology in the white Christian South before and after the Civil War / Luke E. Harlow -- 10. Protestant theological tensions and political styles in the progressive period / Robert T. Handy -- 11. Roman Catholics and American politics, 1900-1960 : altered circumstances, continuing patterns / James Hennesey -- Tumults and Realignments since World War II -- 12. Faith transformed : religion and American politics from FDR to George W. Bush / Lyman Kellstedt, John Green, Corwin Smidt, and James Guh -- 13. Evangelicalism becomes Southern, politics becomes evangelical : from FDR to Ronald Regan / Darren Dochuk -- 14. Viewed in black and white : conservative Protestantism, racial issues, and oppositional politics / Michael O. Emrson and J. Russell Hawkins -- 15. Roman Catholics and American politics, 1960-2004 / Peter Steinfels -- 16. Women, politics, and religion / Margaret Bendroth -- Reflections -- 17. Contemporary views from abroad -- A. Why it is difficult for European observers to understand the relationship between American politics and religion in the twenty-first century / Manfred Siebald -- B. American civil religion and George W. Bush / Sebastien Fath -- C. Crusade for freedom, exportation of the American model, and George W. Bush's second inaugural address/ Massimo Rubboli -- D. For God's sake?: American religion and politics viewed from Denmark / Bente Clausen -- E. Australian perspectives on American religion and politics in the Bush era / Mark Hutchinson -- 18. Canadian counterpoint / Mark A. Noll -- 19. Quid obscurum : the changing terrain of church-state relations / Robert Wuthnow -- 20. Religion, politics, and the search for an American consensus / George M. Marsden |
| Summary |
These essays examine how religious beliefs and practices have shaped political thought and behaviour (and vice versa), and how in certain periods religious and political thought has coincided or moved in opposition, and how minority perspectives have challenged majority views |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Christianity and politics -- United States -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
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Christianity and politics
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Church history.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139926
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Noll, Mark A., 1946-
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Harlow, Luke E.
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| LC no. |
2006100381 |
| ISBN |
9780198043164 |
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0198043163 |
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0195317157 |
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9780195317152 |
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0195317149 |
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9780195317145 |
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9781435605923 |
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1435605926 |
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