Religion and politics in America : faith, culture, and strategic choices

Religion and politics in America faith, culture, and strategic choices

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Fowler, Robert Booth ( 1940-), autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, CO : Westview Press c2010.
Edición:4th ed
Materias:
Religión y política.
Religión.
Política.
Gobierno.
Estados Unidos.
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Religion and political culture in America : the historical legacy
  • The Puritan temper
  • Religious freedom and pluralism
  • The Evangelical dimension
  • The populist dimension
  • Christianity and its major branches
  • The status of religion in the United Sates
  • The major Christian traditions and politics
  • Judaism, Islam, and other expressions of religious pluralism
  • Major non-Christian religions
  • Separatist religions
  • Other small religions
  • A comparative case study : Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses
  • Political assessments
  • Voting and religion in American politics
  • A historical review
  • The postindustrial era
  • The politics of organized religious groups
  • The evolution of national religious lobbies
  • Strategies for effective advocacy
  • The legislative process, compromise, and coalition building
  • A model of religious group effectiveness
  • Progressive Protestant groups
  • Roman Catholic groups
  • Jewish groups
  • Evangelical Protestant groups
  • Muslim groups
  • The politics of religious minorities
  • The globalization of religious advocacy
  • Religious advocacy at the statehouse
  • Local-level advocacy
  • Do religious groups play a distinctive role in American democracy?
  • Religion and political and cultural elites
  • Religion and the presidency
  • Religion and Congress
  • Religion and other political elites
  • Religion and cultural elites
  • Religion, civil society, and political culture
  • The tension between religion and political culture
  • Political culture as a context for religious participation
  • Religion, civil society, and good citizenship
  • Religious politics and the legal system
  • Judicial politics
  • Key players
  • Factors for success
  • The politics of church and state
  • Church and state in the courts
  • Religious free exercise
  • The limits of free exercise
  • The politics of religious establishment
  • Equal access : an alternative approach to church and state
  • Latino and African American religion and politics
  • The changing status of Latino religion
  • Latinos in public life
  • African American religion and politics : toward a broader view
  • History and Black political attitudes
  • Connections between religion and politics
  • Islam in the African American community
  • Gender, religion, and politics
  • Gender and religion in American life
  • Religious women's diverging perspectives on American politics
  • The politics of women in the pews
  • The politics of women clergy
  • Theories of religion, culture, and American politics
  • Culture wars
  • The secularization thesis
  • The culture shift thesis
  • Civil religion
  • The unconventional partners thesis
  • Populism
  • The market thesis, religious pluralism, and politics
  • Toward the future.

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