Religion and Politics in the United States

Religion and Politics in the United States
ISBN-10
1442201525
ISBN-13
9781442201521
Series
Religion and Politics in the United States
Category
Political Science
Pages
455
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated
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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