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050 00 $aBR526$b.R46 2002
082 00 $a261.7/0973$221
245 00 $aReligion, politics, and the American experience :$breflections on religion and American public life /$cedited by Edith L. Blumhofer ; introduction by Martin E. Marty.
260 $aTuscaloosa :$bUniversity of Alabama Press,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $aviii, 147 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aReligion and American culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [141]-142) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Eight Approaches toward Understanding Public Religion and Politics in America /$rMartin E. Marty --$g1.$tReligion and American Democracy /$rJean Bethke Elshtain --$g2.$tToward a Contextual Appreciation of Religion and Politics /$rLaura R. Olson --$g3.$t"A Page of History Is Worth a Volume of Logic": Charting the Legal Pilgrimage of Public Religion /$rJohn Witte, Jr. --$g4.$tPoliticians, Religion, and Civil Discourse /$rPaul Simon --$g5.$tReligion, Politics, and the Media /$rStewart M. Hoover --$g6.$tPublic Religion and Voluntary Associations /$rEdward L. Queen II --$g7.$tEvangelicals Past and Present /$rMark Noll --$g8.$tPublic Theology in Service to a National Conversation /$rMichael J. Himes.
520 1 $a"Chief among the essay topics are the evangelical roots of American political life; early conflicts between Enlightenment thinking and spiritual impulses in developing a national identity; the practical problems that today's politicians face in campaigning; the impact of constitutional and legal language regarding our definitions of religion; and the way the media's treatment of our spiritual life frames our perceptions of it.
520 8 $aThese thought-provoking essays will inspire readers to rethink, argue, perhaps act, but most important, to converse about this timely and important issue." "The volume will have wide cross-disciplinary appeal. Students and scholars of history, religious studies, and political science will find great value within its pages, as will scholars of divinity and law and members of the general public concerned with the intersection of faith and politics in American life."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aChristianity and politics$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117672
650 0 $aEvangelicalism$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103362
700 1 $aBlumhofer, Edith Waldvogel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85180435
830 0 $aReligion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97116642
852 00 $bleh$hBR526$i.R46 2002