Politics and Religious Consciousness in America

Informationen zum Autor George Armstrong Kelly Klappentext This exploration of the tensions of politics and religion in the United States, from its earliest settlement to contemporary times, is the first coherent history of American religious thought and practice within the context of politics. Kelly sets forth a chronology and topology of the patterns of collaboration, competition, and interaction of politics and religion in America. In the United States the pathological features of politics and religion--and their decline of power and virtue--seem more closely linked in time and substance than elsewhere. Kelly concentrates on the implications of the following issues: the distinction between the sacred and the profane; a reevaluation of Tocqueville's analysis; the competitive and coalescent qualities of Calvinist and Arminian doctrines; an interpretation of sectarianism and cultism; a dissection of the meanings of American providentialism; an application of Weberian theory of the Protestant ethic to American religion and politics; a critique of the modern notion of "civil religion"; and an analytical investigation of religious and political modes of conviction. Zusammenfassung This exploration of the tensions of politics and religion in the United States, from its earliest settlement to contemporary times, is the first coherent history of American religious thought and practice within the context of politics Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1: The Sacred and the Profane; 2: Freedom and Control; 3: Amazing Grace; 4: Society, Sects, and Solitude; 5: Westward the Star of Empire; 6: Disenchantment; 7: Civil Religion; 8: Faith and Loyalty

Product details

• Authors: Jean Bethke Elshtain, George Armstrong Kelly, George Armstrong Elshtain Kelly, Kelly George Armstrong
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2004
• EAN: 9780765805973
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0597-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, RELIGION / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, HISTORY / United States / General, Religion & beliefs, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, History of the Americas, Religion and beliefs