The Political Pulpit RevisitedPurdue University Press, 2005 - 240 páginas The Political Pulpit Revisited examines a set of arguments originally made in 1975 about church-state relations in the U.S. Scholars have long wondered how a nation of some two thousand different religious denominations has been able to remain relatively calm about such matters. Controversial issues like abortion rights, war-time pacifism, sanctuary for illegal aliens, clerical abuse of children, non-taxation of church property, and other matters con-tinually roil the political waters. The first edition describes how church and state tensions are worked out symbolically rather than coercively, legally, or economically. The Political Pulpit Revisited updates church/state arguments and then offers reflections by eight distinguished scholars who re-examine the relationship in light of recent events. The result is a fresh look at the American experiment in those relations and what it portends for the U.S. in the years ahead. |
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Traditional Explanations of Civic Piety | 31 |
An Alternative Understanding of Civic Piety | 43 |
Rhetorical Features of Civic Piety | 61 |
Postlude | 93 |
The Force of Religion in the Public Sphere | 99 |
A New Scholarly Dispensation for Civil Religion | 109 |
American Evangelicalism Democracy and Civic Piety A ComputerBased Analysis of Promise Keepers Discourse | 137 |
Forging a CivilReligious Construct for the Twentyfirst Century Should Harts Contract Be Renewed? | 151 |
Official and Unofficial Civil Religious Discourse | 161 |
Broken Covenants and the American Pantheon Church and State 25 Years after The Political Pulpit | 169 |
God Country and a World of Words | 183 |
Notes | 193 |
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Rhetoric Religion and Government at the Turn of the Twentyfirst Century | 117 |
President Clinton and the White House Prayer Breakfast | 127 |
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