Religion, Politics, and American Identity New Directions, New Controversies

by Gutterman, David S.; Murphy, Andrew R.; Bolce, Louis; Bowersox, Joe; Burack, Cynthia; Burke, John Francis; Button, Mark; Maio, Gerald De; Eisenach, Elson J.; Hawkins, Larycia; Josephson, Jyl J.; Miller, Jennifer; Nelson, Sam; Olson, Laura; Wilcox, Melissa

• ISBN13: 9780739111147
• ISBN10: 0739111140
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-24
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Scholarship on the role of religion in American public life has taken on a new urgency in the increasingly contentious wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001. This volume brings together an impressive group of scholars to build on past work and broaden the scope of this crucial inquiry in two respects by exploring aspects of the religion-politics nexus in the United States that have been neglected in the past, and by examining traditional questions concerning the religious tincture of American political discourse in provocative new ways.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Research on American Religion and Politics: A Survey of the Field	p. 3
A Christian Nation? Religion and American Politics in the Wake of September 11	p. 21
Discourse Bless America: Rebuilding the National Mythos after September 11	p. 25
The Enduring Power of the American Jeremiad	p. 49
Stories of Sinfulness: Narrative Identity in America	p. 73
Beyond Church and State: The Many Faces of American Religion and Politics	p. 97
The Divisiveness Rationale and Negative Reference Group Associations in Church-State Controversies	p. 101
Religion on Main Street: Toward a New Politics of the Sacred and Secular	p. 129
Latino Spirituality and U.S. Politics: A Communitarianism That Crosses Borders	p. 151
Religion in the Workplace and the Problem of the First Amendment	p. 177
Greening the Divine: Religion, the Environment, and Politics in Twenty-First Century North America	p. 199
Religion, Race, and Rhetoric: The Black Church, Religious Interest Groups, and Charitable Choice	p. 221
Inside, Out, and In-Between: Sexual Minorities, the Christian Right, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	p. 247
Conclusion: Religion, Politics, and American Identity After September 11: Reflections on Recent Scholarship	p. 269
Index	p. 293
Notes on Contributors	p. 303
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