Faith, Morality, and Civil Society

by McConkey, Dale; Lawler, Peter Augustine; Ahearn, David Oki (CON); Bailey, Michael (CON); Bartkowski, John (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780739104828
• ISBN10: 0739104829
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Editors Dale McConkey and Peter Augustine Lawler explore the contributions that religious faith and morality can make to a civil society.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
The Potential for Pluralism: Religious Responses to the Triumph of Theory and Method in American Academic Culture	1	(16)
Alan Wolfe
Neo-Calvinist Social Thought and Civic Education	17	(20)
Kevin Pybas
The Principle of Subsidiarity and the Agrarian Ideal	37	(28)
Joshua P. Hochschild
The Varieties of Democratic Experience	65	(22)
Michael Bailey
The Changing Landscape of Religion and Politics in America: The 2000 Presidential Election	87	(18)
Beverly Gaddy
Holy Books, Not Pocketbooks: Religious and Cultural Influences on the 2000 Presidential Election	105	(22)
Dale McConkey
Religious Civility, Civil Society, and Charitable Choice: Faith-Based Poverty Relief in the Post-Welfare Era	127	(18)
John P. Bartkowski
Helen A. Regis
Speech, Not Religion: The Dilemma of Religious Conservatives in the Public Square	145	(14)
Steven P. Brown
Faith, Tolerance, and Civil Society	159	(38)
Beverly Gaddy
Aliens and Citizens: Competing Models of Political Involvement in Contemporary Christian Social Ethics	197	(12)
David Oki Ahearn
Inverted Morality	209	(8)
Brad Lowell Stone
From Virtues to Values: Some Opening Thoughts	217	(10)
Alan Woolfolk
Index	227	(4)
About the Contributors	231