Religion and the Bush Presidency

by Rozell, Mark J.; Whitney, Gleaves

• ISBN13: 9781403980076
• ISBN10: 1403980071
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

George W. Bush has invited more analysis and controversy over the impact of religion on his presidency than perhaps any chief executive of the modern era. Opinion on Bush's religiosity is intensely divisive, with conservative evangelicals seeing him as a man of deep faith and principles and at the same time many progressives seeing the president as almost dangerously fanatical. This volume is a scholarly review and analysis of the role of religion in the Bush presidency. It is divided into two sections of essays by leading scholars: The first examines the impact of various religious voting groups to the 2004 presidential campaign. The second reviews and assesses the impact of religion on the policies of the George W. Bush presidency.

Author Biography

Mark J. Rozell is Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University, Virginia. Gleaves Whitney is Director, Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction : religion and the Bush presidency	p. 1
Bush and the Christian right : the triumph of pragmatism	p. 11
Religion and the 2004 election
"What does the Lord require?" : evangelicals and the 2004 presidential vote	p. 31
Catholics and the politics of change : the presidential campaigns of two JFKs	p. 51
The mainline Protestant vote	p. 69
The politics of the religious minorities vote in the 2004 elections	p. 95
Religion and the policies of the Bush administration
Keeping the charge : George W. Bush, the Christian right, and the new vital center of American politics	p. 129
The politics of faith-based initiatives	p. 155
Buying black votes? : the GOP's faith-based initiative	p. 177
Life issues : abortion, stem-cell research, and the case of Terry Schiavo	p. 197
Evangelical "internationalists" and U.S. foreign policy during the Bush administration	p. 213
President George W. Bush and judicial restraint : accommodating religion	p. 235
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