Faithful Republic : : Religion and Politics in Modern America / / ed. by Andrew Preston, Julian E Zelizer, Bruce J. Schulman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
• MitwirkendeR: Berman, Lila Corwin,; Blum, Edward J.,; Dochuk, Darren,; Geismer, Lily,; Greene, Alison Collis,; Hedstrom, Matthew S.,; Mislin, David,; Moreton, Bethany,; Preston, Andrew,; Schulman, Bruce J.,; Worthen, Molly,; Zelizer, Julian E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Preston, Andrew,; Schulman, Bruce J.,; Zelizer, Julian E,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Despite constitutional limitations, the points of contact between religion and politics have deeply affected all aspects of American political development since the founding of the United States. Within partisan politics, federal institutions, and movement activism, religion and politics have rarely...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. "Against the Foes That Destroy the Family, Protestants and Catholics Can Stand Together": Divorce and Christian Ecumenism
• Chapter 2. American Jewish Politics Is Urban Politics
• Chapter 3. Fighting for the Fundamentals: Lyman Stewart and the Protestant Politics of Oil
• Chapter 4. A "Divine Revelation"? Southern Churches Respond to the New Deal
• Chapter 5. The Rise of Spiritual Cosmopolitanism: Liberal Protestants and Cultural Politics
• Chapter 6. "A Third Force": The Civil Rights Ministry of Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
• Chapter 7. The Theological Origins of the Christian Right
• Chapter 8. More than Megachurches: Liberal Religion and Politics in the Suburbs
• Chapter 9. Knute Gingrich, All American? White Evangelicals, U.S. Catholics, and the Religious Genealogy of Political Realignment
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index
• Acknowledgments