Lexington Books
Pages: 250
Trim: 5¾ x 9⅛
978-0-7391-0483-5 • Paperback • May 2003 • $51.99 • (£40.00)
978-0-7391-5494-6 • eBook • June 2003 • $49.00 • (£38.00)
Dale McConkey is Associate Professor of Sociology at Berry College. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Christian Sociologist, and the coeditor, with Peter Augustine Lawler, of Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today (Lexington Books, 2001), Social Structures, Social Capital, and Personal Freedom (2000), and Community and Political Thought Today (1998). Peter Augustine Lawler is Professor of Government at Berry College.
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Potential for Pluralism: Religious Responses to the Triumph of Theory and Method in American Academia
Chapter 3 Neo-Calvinist Social Thought and Civic Education
Chapter 4 The Principle of Subsidiarity and the Agrarian Ideal
Chapter 5 The Varieties of Democratic Experience
Chapter 6 The Changing Landscape of Religion and Politics in America: The 2000 Presidential Elections
Chapter 7 Holy Books, Not Pocketbooks: Religious and Cultural Influences on the 2000 Presidential Election
Chapter 8 Religious Civility, Civil Society, and Charitable Choice: Faith-Based Poverty Relief in the Post-Welfare Era
Chapter 9 Speech, Not Religion: The Dilemma of Religious Conservatives in the Public Square
Chapter 10 Faith, Tolerance, and Civil Society
Chapter 11 Aliens and Citizens: Competing Models of Political Involvement in Contemporary Christian Social Ethics
Chapter 12 Inverted Morality
Chapter 13 From Virtues to Values: Some Opening Thoughts
In its methodological diversity, its wide range of concerns, and its attention to the dynamics of American religion and pluralism, this volume will contribute to the ongoing attempt-academically and, one hopes, practically-of navigating "our" way into the American 21st century.
— Andrew R. Murphy; Journal Of The Scientific Study Of Religion