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100 1 $aReed, Ralph,$d1961-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94056141
245 10 $aActive faith :$bhow Christians are changing the soul of American politics /$cRalph Reed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bThe Free Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $aviii, 311 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tHow We Got There --$g2.$tAll God's Children --$g3.$tLiberalism's Hollow Core --$g4.$tRising from the Ashes --$g5.$tChristian Coalition: After the Fall --$g6.$tNo More Stealth: The Real Agenda --$g7.$tLooking Ahead.
520 $aRalph Reed, Executive Director of the Christian Coalition, is responsible for wedding high technology with cutting-edge political organization to engineer the most efficient and effective projection of religion into the nation's political life in modern times. In Active Faith, Reed articulates a new "theology" of political activism for devout Christians and calls upon all Americans, both religious and secular, to heal our ailing body politic.
520 8 $aWith a historian's practiced eye, Reed recounts the long tale of religious involvement in American life, showing that despite the popular belief, devout Christians and religious rhetoric have been the driving force behind nearly every major social reform movement in America, whether of the right or of the left. From abolition to the New Deal, from the labor movement to civil rights, Christian believers have been instrumental to the expansion of social justice in the United States.
520 8 $aReed paints compelling portraits of the most famous religious reformers of the past, including William Jennings Bryan, Walter Rauschenbusch, and Martin Luther King, Jr., men whose ideas and ideals exerted a broad positive influence on the secular politics of their day.
520 8 $aBy contrast, the involvement of Christian conservatives in politics today prompts puzzlement, anger, and condescension from the media and establishment politicians. Reed explains why this is so, blaming a knee-jerk secularism that has infected many of our institutions and that makes American elites suspect any public pronouncements of religious faith, Christian or otherwise.
520 8 $aReed gives a detailed account of how the Christian Coalition overcame media hostility, cultural stereotypes, and the missteps of the old religious right to become a respected and permanent fixture in American politics. Today, by uniting with Catholics and observant Jews, as well as reaching out to African-Americans, it stands poised to capture majority status on hundreds of local school boards, in city councils, in state legislatures, and in the U.S. Congress itself.
650 0 $aChristianity and politics$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100737
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610 20 $aChristian Coalition.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93022539
600 10 $aReed, Ralph,$d1961-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94056141
650 0 $aConservatism$xReligious aspects$xChristianity.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009119449
650 0 $aConservatism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100500
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1993-2001.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006372
852 00 $bleh$hBR526$i.R43 1996