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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... Social Justice, and the Struggle over Morality 71 4 Selling Religion Short: When Ideology Is Not Enough 92 5 John Paul, Benedict, and the Catholic Future 126 6 What Happened to the Seamless Garment? The Agony of Liberal Catholicism 151 ...
... social justice, war and peace, the organization of our work lives, or our approach to providing for the old, the sick, and the desperate. Religion becomes less relevant to public life when its role is marginalized to a predetermined ...
... social critics, left and right, to refer to a kind of leveling down of spiritual demands, spiritual discipline, and spiritual authority. Yet the suburbanization of the United States has created its own spiritual style, much as the ...
... is also intended to make the case to religious people that faith calls us to social as well as individual responsibility, and that politics is not primarily a realm of cultural combat in which only abortion IS GOD'S WORK OUR WORK? 7.
... social justice, the rise of the liberation theologians I read in Harvey Cox's classes, the challenge of the modern age to believers and of believers to the modern age—was suddenly relevant to my day-to-day work. My personal interest in ...
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 |