Religion and Politics in the United States
- ISBN-10
- 1442201517
- ISBN-13
- 9781442201514
- Series
- Religion and Politics in the United States
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 455
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Authors
- Kenneth D. Wald, Allison Calhoun-Brown
Description
This sixth edition offers a comprehensive account of the role of religious ideas, institutions, and communities in American life. It contains expanded coverage of religion and gender politics and the politics of sexual diversity. Through a detailed review of the political attitudes and behavior of major religious and minority faith traditions, the book establishes that religion continues to be a major part of the American cultural and political milieu while explaining that it must interact with many other factors to influence political outcomes in the United States . This edition also reviews the role of religion in the 2008 election and includes fully up-to-date coverage of how religion informs the civil rights struggles of women and gay Americans. Although the text mainly covers religion and politics within the United States, a dialogue of the centrality and complexity of religious activism in Western liberal cultures provides a useful comparative framework.
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- 2014
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