The Holy Vote: The Politics Of Faith In America
In the tradition of the bestselling "God's Politics" comes a book which examines how the faithful worship and how the new dialogue between religion and voters has forever altered American politics. ...
From Bible Belt To Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, And The Rise Of Evangelical Conservatism
A sweeping, five-decade history of the evangelical movement in southern California that explains an epochal realignment of American politics. From Bible Belt to Sun Belt tells the dramatic and largel...
The Furies Of Indian Communalism: Religion, Modernity And Secularization
A powerful and rigorous analysis of the growing phenomenon of Hindu communalism, which currently threatens to tear India apart. The author explains the specific nature and modernity of communalism, an...
Faith In The Halls Of Power: How Evangelicals Joined The American Elite
Evangelicals, once at the periphery of American life, now wield power from the White House to Wall Street. Drawing on personal interviews, Lindsay reveals how a new generation of the faithful is bring...
Religion In An Expanding Europe
With political controversies raging over issues such as the wearing of headscarves in schools and the mention of Christianity in the European Constitution, religious issues are of growing importance i...
Encyclopedia Fo Politics And Religion, 2nd Edition Set
Now available in a revised and updated second edition, Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion is the only reference work that addresses the intersection of politics and religion as they play out in our...
Religion And American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960: The Soul Of Containment
The Cold War was in many ways a religious war. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower and other American leaders believed that human rights and freedoms were endowed by God, that God had called the United S...
Please Don't Wish Me A Merry Christmas: A Critical History Of The Separation Of Church And State
Nearly all discussions regarding the role of religion in American life build on two dominant assumptions: first, the separation of church and state is a constitutional principle that promotes democrac...
Sacred Places, Civic Purposes: Should Government Help Faith-Based Charity?
Long before there was a welfare state, there were efforts by religious congregations to alleviate poverty. Those efforts have continued since the establishment of government programs to help the poor,...
Native Americans And The Christian Right: The Gendered Politics Of Unlikely Alliances
In "Native Americans and the Christian Right," Andrea Smith advances social movement theory beyond simplistic understandings of social-justice activism as either right-wing or left-wing and urges a mo...
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