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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... form of higher authority has to tailor its commandments to the needs of real people.” The best word for this style was discovered by David Brooks, who speaks in his best-selling Bobos in Paradise of a yearning for “flexidoxy.” He ...
... forms of religious fundamentalism to science and religious pluralism. As a general proposition, I welcome the neo-atheists' challenge. Theirs is an unsurprising response to what Ronald Aronson, writing in the Nation in 2007, called “the ...
... forms of dogmatism have been at least as murderous as the religious kind. Particularly bothersome is the suggestion that believers rarely question themselves while atheists ask all the hard questions. History, as Michael Novak argued in ...
... forms and by denying the good works and the great intellectual achievements that our faith traditions have called forth. IV The decision to believe or not to believe is an individual choice. We are all shaped by the traditions in which ...
... form of loyalty (to one's parents or tribe or ethnic group or community). It can be an aesthetic judgment (that a ... forms of revelation—to Muhammad, to the Buddha—and how they relate to each other? Can one be a believer in religious ...
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 |