Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious RightPrinceton University Press, 2009 M10 12 - 264 pages The religious and political winds are changing. Tens of millions of religious Americans are reclaiming faith from those who would abuse it for narrow, partisan, and ideological purposes. And more and more secular Americans are discovering common ground with believers on the great issues of social justice, peace, and the environment. In Souled Out, award-winning journalist and commentator E. J. Dionne explains why the era of the Religious Right--and the crude exploitation of faith for political advantage--is over. |
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... believe that He has, in fact, changed his party after all these years. On significant parts of the right and left, there is a sense that religion always has been and always will be a conservative force. There are Republican candidates ...
... believe abused, religion. A great many people—including a great many religious people— have had enough. They have had enough for the reason embodied in the other sense of the title: reducing religion to politics or to a narrow set of ...
... believe fatal—setbacks during George W. Bush's second term. The end of the religious Right does not signal a decline in evangelical Christianity. On the contrary, it is a sign of a new reformation among Christians—Warren and Cizik are ...
... believe. From the 1960s forward, the term “spiritual suburbanization” was used with some disdain by social critics, left and right, to refer to a kind of leveling down of spiritual demands, spiritual discipline, and spiritual authority ...
... believe they possess truth should not fear entering what Hollenbach calls “a community of freedom.” Doing so is not a sign of intellectual fuzziness or a lack of faith. On the contrary, it means embracing the very “strictness of thought ...
Contents
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1 Is Religion Conservative or Progressive? Or Both? | 25 |
3 What Are the Values Issues? | 71 |
5 John Paul Benedict and the Catholic Future | 126 |
6 What Happened to the Seamless Garment? | 151 |
7 Solidarity Liberty and Religions True Calling | 183 |
Notes | 205 |
Acknowledgments | 227 |
Index | 235 |
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Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right E. J. Dionne Jr. No preview available - 2009 |