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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... seen as leading ineluctably to conservative political convictions. In fact, religious people hold a wide array of political views. Religion is not the enemy of reason (or science), and people of faith are not blind automatons who ...
... seen as utterly indifferent to what happens in this world—or if it becomes a kind of decent drapery, to use Edmund Burke's evocative term, to disguise or rationalize the authority of the already powerful. Such a faith would be incapable ...
... seen as a brief against arrogance where questions of faith are concerned. Arrogance is truth's enemy because it closes us to self-criticism, self-correction, and honest doubt. My friend Korin Davis had it right when she said in a ...
... seen faith as more enriching and challenging than oppressive. I offer these stories not because they are exceptional, but because I think they are rather typical. More than many believers usually want to admit, our attitude toward faith ...
... seen as more relevant than its conservative impulses. Reinhold Niebuhr's theology will be far more influential than Pat Robertson's. The economic requirements for a decent family life will trump rhetorical appeals to “family values ...
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 Limited preview - 2008 |
Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right E. J. Dionne Jr. No preview available - 2009 |