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From Politics to the Pews
Author | : Michele F. Margolis |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2018-08-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780226555812 |
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One of the most substantial divides in American politics is the “God gap.” Religious voters tend to identify with and support the Republican Party, while secular voters generally support the Democratic Party. Conventional wisdom suggests that religious differences between Republicans and Democrats have produced this gap, with voters sorting themselves into the party that best represents their religious views. Michele F. Margolis offers a bold challenge to the conventional wisdom, arguing that the relationship between religion and politics is far from a one-way street that starts in the church and ends at the ballot box. Margolis contends that political identity has a profound effect on social identity, including religion. Whether a person chooses to identify as religious and the extent of their involvement in a religious community are, in part, a response to political surroundings. In today’s climate of political polarization, partisan actors also help reinforce the relationship between religion and politics, as Democratic and Republican elites stake out divergent positions on moral issues and use religious faith to varying degrees when reaching out to voters.
From Pews to Politics
Author | : Gwyneth H. McClendon,Rachel Beatty Riedl |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2019-11-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781108486576 |
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Using Christianity in Africa, this book demonstrates that cultural influences, specifically religious sermons, can impact political participation.
From Pews to Polling Places
Author | : J. Matthew Wilson |
Publsiher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2007-10-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1589013263 |
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Does religion promote political mobilization? Are individuals motivated by their faith to focus on issues of social justice, personal morality, or both? What is the relationship between religious conviction and partisanship? Does religious identity reinforce or undermine other political identifications like race, ethnicity, and class? The answers to these questions are hardly monolithic, varying between and within major American religious groups. With an electoral climate increasingly shaped by issues of faith, values, and competing moral visions, it is both fascinating and essential to examine the religious and political currents within America's major religious traditions. J. Matthew Wilson and a group of prominent religion and politics scholars examine these topics and assess one question central to these issues: How does faith shape political action in America's diverse religious communities? From Pews to Polling Places seeks to cover a rich mosaic of religious and ethnic perspectives with considerable breadth by examining evangelical Christians, the religious left, Catholics, Mormons, African Americans, Latinos, Jews, and Muslims. Along with these groups, the book takes a unique look at the role of secular and antifundamentalist positions, adding an even wider outlook to these critical concerns. The contributors demonstrate how different theologies, histories, and social situations drive distinct conceptualizations of the relationship between religious and political life. At the same time, however, the book points to important commonalities across traditions that can inform our discussions on the impact of religion on political life. In emphasizing these similarities, the authors explore the challenges of political mobilization, partisanship, and the intersections of religion and ethnicity.
Politics in the Pews
Author | : Eric McDaniel |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2008-09-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106019377032 |
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Examines the factors underlying the political mobilization of Black churches
Pews Prayers and Participation
Author | : Corwin E. Smidt |
Publsiher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781589012189 |
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"Pews, Prayers, and Participation: Religion and Civic Responsibility in America" offers a fresh approach to key questions about what role religion plays in fostering civic responsibility in contemporary American society. In the course of their study the authors examine whether an individual exhibits a diminished, a privatized, a public, or an integrated form of religious expression, based on the individual's level of participation in both the public (worship) or private (prayer) dimensions of religious life. They question whether the privatization of religious life is counterproductive to engagement in public life, and they show that religion does indeed play a significant role in fostering civic responsibility across each of its particular facets.--From publisher description.
The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics
Author | : Andrew R. Lewis |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781108417709 |
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Explains how abortion politics influenced a fundamental shift in conservative Christian politics, teaching conservatives to embrace rights arguments.
Religion and Politics in America
Author | : Robert Booth Fowler |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2018-05-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780429972799 |
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Religion and politics are never far from the headlines, but their relationship remains complex and often confusing. In this fifth edition of Religion and Politics in America, the authors offer a lively, accessible, and balanced treatment of religion in American politics. They explore the historical, cultural, and legal contexts that underlie religious political engagement while also highlighting the pragmatic and strategic political realities that religious organizations and people face. Incorporating the best and most up-to-date scholarship, the authors assess the politics of Roman Catholics; evangelical, mainline, and African American Protestants; Jews; Muslims and other conventional and not-so-conventional American religious movements. The author team also examines important subjects concerning religion and its relationship to gender, race/ethnicity, and class. The fifth edition has been revised to include the 2012 elections, in particular Mitt Romney's candidacy and Mormonism, as well as a fuller assessment of the role of religion in President Obama's first term. In-depth treatment of core topics, contemporary case studies, and useful focus-study boxes, provides students with a real understanding of how religion and politics relate in practice and makes this fifth edition essential reading for courses in political science, religion, and sociology departments.
Seculosity
Author | : David Zahl |
Publsiher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2019-04-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781506449449 |
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At the heart of our current moment lies a universal yearning, writes David Zahl, not to be happy or respected so much as enough--what religions call "righteous." To fill the void left by religion, we look to all sorts of everyday activities--from eating and parenting to dating and voting--for the identity, purpose, and meaning once provided on Sunday morning. In our striving, we are chasing a sense of enoughness. But it remains ever out of reach, and the effort and anxiety are burning us out. Seculosity takes a thoughtful yet entertaining tour of American "performancism" and its cousins, highlighting both their ingenuity and mercilessness, all while challenging the conventional narrative of religious decline. Zahl unmasks the competing pieties around which so much of our lives revolve, and he does so in a way that's at points playful, personal, and incisive. Ultimately he brings us to a fresh appreciation for the grace of God in all its countercultural wonder.