Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious RightPrinceton University Press, 2008 - 251 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. Based on years of research and writing, Souled Out shows that the end of the Religious Right doesn't signal the decline of evangelical Christianity but rather its disentanglement from a political machine that sold it out to a narrow electoral agenda of such causes as opposition to gay marriage and abortion. With insightful portraits of leading contemporary religious figures from Rick Warren and Richard Cizik to John Paul II and Benedict XVI, Dionne shows that our great religions have always preached a broad message of hope for more just human arrangements and refused to be mere props for the powers that be. Dionne also argues that the new atheist writers should be seen as a gift to believers, a demand that they live up to their proclaimed values and embrace scientific and philosophical inquiry in a spirit of "intellectual solidarity." Written in the tradition of Reinhold and H. Richard Niebuhr, Souled Out will help change how we think and talk about religion and politics in the post-Bush era. |
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... Christianity and politics - United States . 2. Religious right — United States . 3. Christian conservatism - United States . I. Title . BR516.D56 2008 261.70973 - dc22 2007045172 British Library Cataloging - in - Publication Data is ...
... Christian and Jewish scriptures — have preached a message of hope for more just and decent human arrangements . One ... Christianity is a faith of the living . Marx saw religion as the " opium of the people . " But that can be true only ...
... Christians do not care about the poorest among them in the world , they are not being true to their faith . There is ... Christianity . On the contrary , it is a sign of a new reformation among Christians — Warren and Cizik are ...
... Christianity is the best way to under- stand God , " only 25 percent " said it was best for everybody . " These are more the views of flexidox believers in moral freedom than of a nation of " theocrats " intent on imposing a particular ...
... Christians — if far too few — were among those who rescued Jews from these most un - Christian acts . And it is a sad fact that secular forms of dogmatism have been at least as murderous as the religious kind . Particularly bothersome ...
Contents
Is Religion Conservative or Progressive? Or Both? | 25 |
Why the Culture War Is the Wrong War Religion Values and American Politics | 45 |
What Are the Values Issues? Economics Social Justice and the Struggle over Morality | 71 |
Selling Religion Short When Ideology Is Not Enough | 92 |
John Paul Benedict and the Catholic Future | 126 |
What Happened to the Seamless Garment? The Agony of Liberal Catholicism | 151 |
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Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right E. J. Dionne Jr. Limited preview - 2009 |
Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right E. J. Dionne Jr. No preview available - 2009 |