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Religion and American politics [electronic resource] : from the colonial period to the present / edited by Mark A Noll and Luke E. Harlow.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New Yorki : Oxford University Press, 2007.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (xvii, 502 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780198043164 (electronic bk.)
  • 0198043163 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religion and American politics.DDC classification:
  • 322/.10973 22
LOC classification:
  • BR516 .R34 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Mark A. Noll -- A Protestant Era : Colonial Era to the Civil War -- 1. Religion and politics in America from the first settlements to the Civil War / John M. Murrin -- 2. Religion and ideological change in the American Revolution / Ruth H. Bloch -- 3. Rhetoric and reality in the early republic : the case of the Federalist clergy / Harry S. Stout -- 4. Religion, government, and power in the new American nation / John F. Wilson -- 5. The democratization of Christianity and the character of American politics / Nathan O. Hatch -- 6. Religion and politics in the antebellum North / Daniel Walker Howe -- 7. Ethnoreligious political behavior in the mid-nineteenth century : voting, values, cultures / Robert P. Swierenga -- 8. Methodists, politics, and the coming of the American Civil War / Richard Cawardine -- New Configurations -- 9. Slavery, race, and political ideology in the white Christian South before and after the Civil War / Luke E. Harlow -- 10. Protestant theological tensions and political styles in the progressive period / Robert T. Handy -- 11. Roman Catholics and American politics, 1900-1960 : altered circumstances, continuing patterns / James Hennesey -- Tumults and Realignments since World War II -- 12. Faith transformed : religion and American politics from FDR to George W. Bush / Lyman Kellstedt, John Green, Corwin Smidt, and James Guh -- 13. Evangelicalism becomes Southern, politics becomes evangelical : from FDR to Ronald Regan / Darren Dochuk -- 14. Viewed in black and white : conservative Protestantism, racial issues, and oppositional politics / Michael O. Emrson and J. Russell Hawkins -- 15. Roman Catholics and American politics, 1960-2004 / Peter Steinfels -- 16. Women, politics, and religion / Margaret Bendroth -- Reflections -- 17. Contemporary views from abroad -- A. Why it is difficult for European observers to understand the relationship between American politics and religion in the twenty-first century / Manfred Siebald -- B. American civil religion and George W. Bush / Sebastien Fath -- C. Crusade for freedom, exportation of the American model, and George W. Bush's second inaugural address/ Massimo Rubboli -- D. For God's sake?: American religion and politics viewed from Denmark / Bente Clausen -- E. Australian perspectives on American religion and politics in the Bush era / Mark Hutchinson -- 18. Canadian counterpoint / Mark A. Noll -- 19. Quid obscurum : the changing terrain of church-state relations / Robert Wuthnow -- 20. Religion, politics, and the search for an American consensus / George M. Marsden.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Mark A. Noll -- A Protestant Era : Colonial Era to the Civil War -- 1. Religion and politics in America from the first settlements to the Civil War / John M. Murrin -- 2. Religion and ideological change in the American Revolution / Ruth H. Bloch -- 3. Rhetoric and reality in the early republic : the case of the Federalist clergy / Harry S. Stout -- 4. Religion, government, and power in the new American nation / John F. Wilson -- 5. The democratization of Christianity and the character of American politics / Nathan O. Hatch -- 6. Religion and politics in the antebellum North / Daniel Walker Howe -- 7. Ethnoreligious political behavior in the mid-nineteenth century : voting, values, cultures / Robert P. Swierenga -- 8. Methodists, politics, and the coming of the American Civil War / Richard Cawardine -- New Configurations -- 9. Slavery, race, and political ideology in the white Christian South before and after the Civil War / Luke E. Harlow -- 10. Protestant theological tensions and political styles in the progressive period / Robert T. Handy -- 11. Roman Catholics and American politics, 1900-1960 : altered circumstances, continuing patterns / James Hennesey -- Tumults and Realignments since World War II -- 12. Faith transformed : religion and American politics from FDR to George W. Bush / Lyman Kellstedt, John Green, Corwin Smidt, and James Guh -- 13. Evangelicalism becomes Southern, politics becomes evangelical : from FDR to Ronald Regan / Darren Dochuk -- 14. Viewed in black and white : conservative Protestantism, racial issues, and oppositional politics / Michael O. Emrson and J. Russell Hawkins -- 15. Roman Catholics and American politics, 1960-2004 / Peter Steinfels -- 16. Women, politics, and religion / Margaret Bendroth -- Reflections -- 17. Contemporary views from abroad -- A. Why it is difficult for European observers to understand the relationship between American politics and religion in the twenty-first century / Manfred Siebald -- B. American civil religion and George W. Bush / Sebastien Fath -- C. Crusade for freedom, exportation of the American model, and George W. Bush's second inaugural address/ Massimo Rubboli -- D. For God's sake?: American religion and politics viewed from Denmark / Bente Clausen -- E. Australian perspectives on American religion and politics in the Bush era / Mark Hutchinson -- 18. Canadian counterpoint / Mark A. Noll -- 19. Quid obscurum : the changing terrain of church-state relations / Robert Wuthnow -- 20. Religion, politics, and the search for an American consensus / George M. Marsden.

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