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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... John Paul II and Benedict XVI , Dionne shows that our great religions have always preached a broad mes- sage of hope for more just human arrange- ments and refused to be mere props for the powers that be . Dionne also argues that the ...
... John Paul , Benedict , and the Catholic Future 126 6 What Happened to the Seamless Garment ? The Agony of Liberal Catholicism 151 7 Solidarity , Liberty , and Religion's True Calling 183 Notes 205 Acknowledgments 227 Index 235 Souled ...
... Paul Tillich , and Karl Barth to John Cour- tney Murray , Billy Graham , and Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning in the late 1970s , the focus of interest narrowed . To be sure , Pope John Paul II earned his share of coverage . But in the ...
... John Paul II . So much of what I cared about as a student — the relationship between faith and 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 ...
... John XXIII and John Paul II . I pay particular attention to ( and offer a critique of ) Michael Novak's economic thinking . While I disagree with Novak , he usefully offers one side ... John Paul and Benedict . John Paul is 20 INTRODUCTION.
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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