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Religion in American public life
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Analysis of the relationship between religion & politics in America, underlying causes & issues.
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- Creator
- A. James Reichley
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, [1985]
- ©1985
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 402 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0815773781, 9780815773788, 0815773773, 9780815773771
- OCLC
- ocm12557957
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-389) and index.
- The religion issue. The problem defined ; A common source -- Religion, politics, and human values. A typology of value systems ; Egoism ; Authoritarianism ; Monism ; Idealism ; Personalism ; Civil humanism ; Theist-humanism -- Intentions of the founders. City on a hill ; Degrees of diversity ; The American Enlightenment ; A new nation -- Interpreting the first amendment. A new doctrine of rights ; The Free Exercise Clause ; The Establishment Clause ; Reasonable standards -- The churches and political action: 1790 to 1963. A pluralist society ; First alignment ; An immigrant church ; The party of conscience ; Religion and the industrial age ; The New Deal coalition -- Time of turmoil: 1964 to 1985. The churches come to Washington ; The religious new left ; Mainline Protestants in crisis ; Black activism ; Catholics in ferment ; Post-liberal Jews ; Revolt of the Evangelicals ; A new center? ; The underlying issue -- Religion and democracy. The moral foundation of democracy ; The role of the churches ; "A religious people."