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List of Figures and Tables | p. ix |
Preface | p. xi |
A Secular Society? | p. 1 |
The Puzzle of Religious Vitality | p. 4 |
The Persistence of Religion | p. 8 |
Stability or Change? | p. 13 |
Possible Explanations | p. 16 |
Why the United States? | p. 18 |
Religion in the American Content | p. 23 |
Understanding Religion | p. 24 |
Patterns of Religious Affiliation | p. 26 |
Basic Political Tendencies | p. 31 |
Religion and American Political Culture | p. 37 |
The Puritan Imprint on Colonial Thought | p. 38 |
Covenant Theology and the Right to Revolt | p. 41 |
Puritanism and Democracy: A Qualification | p. 44 |
"Total Depravity" and Institutional Restraint | p. 46 |
One Nation under God: A Civil Religion | p. 52 |
Civil Religion as a Double-Edged Sword | p. 57 |
One of Many Influences | p. 59 |
Religion and the State | p. 63 |
The Genesis of Church-State Conflict | p. 64 |
Overview of Church-State Relations | p. 67 |
How Far Can Government Go? | p. 73 |
The Judicial Record | p. 78 |
The Separationist Era (1940s-1970s) | p. 86 |
The Accommodationist Era | p. 93 |
The Politics of Church-State Relations | p. 98 |
The Constitutional Revolution in Perspective | p. 101 |
Mobilizing Religious Interests | p. 105 |
Studying Religious Interests | p. 106 |
Establishing Motive | p. 108 |
Establishing Means | p. 125 |
Religion and Political Action | p. 139 |
Religion Cultural Environment | p. 141 |
Institutional Context | p. 145 |
Partisan Political Alignments | p. 151 |
Influential Allies | p. 154 |
Policy Domain | p. 161 |
Religion and Public Opinion | p. 179 |
Economic Liberalism | p. 181 |
Moral-Cultural Issues | p. 183 |
Social Justice | p. 191 |
Foreign Policy | p. 195 |
What Culture War? | |
The Political Mobilization of Evangelical Protestants | p. 201 |
The Political Background | p. 202 |
Roots of the "New Christian Right" | p. 206 |
Building a National Movement | p. 209 |
Evangelical Political Action | p. 210 |
Organizational Transformation: The Second Generation | p. 212 |
Theories of Evangelical Mobilization | p. 216 |
The Impact of the Christian Right | p. 221 |
The Consequences for Public Policy | p. 222 |
Good Times? The Christian Right and the Bush Adminstration | p. 224 |
The Christian Right as a Mass Movement | p. 225 |
Continuity and Change in the Religious Center: Catholics, Mainline Protestants, and Jews | p. 239 |
Catholicism: Conflicting Political Impulses | p. 241 |
The Conservative Political Heritage | p. 242 |
The Transformation of Catholic Attitudes | p. 245 |
Abortion: The Catholic Response | p. 250 |
Is Abortion a Catholic Issue? | p. 253 |
The Political Traditions of Mainline Protestants | p. 259 |
Mainline Activism: Sources and Reaction s | p. 263 |
American Jews | p. 266 |
Religion and the Politics of Ethnic and Religious Minorities | p. 275 |
African American Protestants | p. 276 |
Latino Catholics and Protestants | p. 286 |
Muslim Americans | p. 291 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | p. 299 |
Other Faith Traditions | p. 305 |
The Other Minorities: Women and Gay People | p. 309 |
Women, Religion, and Politics | p. 312 |
Homosexuals | p. 325 |
Religion and Homosexuality | p. 328 |
Religion and American Political Life | p. 345 |
The Case against Religious Influence in Politics | p. 346 |
Assessing the Evidence | p. 352 |
The Case for Religion in Politics | p. 358 |
Religion in Public Conversation | p. 367 |
Notes | p. 369 |
Reference | p. 383 |
Index | p. 441 |
About the Authors | p. 455 |
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