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Democracy and Religion in America

Books on: democratic religion american

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Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900

Book by Gregory A. Wills; Oxford University Press, 1997

Subjects:

Authority--Religious Aspects--Baptists, Baptists--Southern States--History--18th Century, Baptists--Southern States--History--19th Century, Democracy--Religious Aspects--Baptists, Southern Baptist Convention--Discipline, Southern Baptist Convention--Doctrines--History, Southern States--Church History--18th Century, Southern States--Church History--19th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person ...
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No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. Paradoxically no denomination could wield religious authority as zealously as the Baptists. Between 1785 and 1860 they ritually excommunicated forty to fifty thousand church members in Georgia alone. Wills demonstrates how a denomination of freedom-loving individualists came to embrace an exclusivist spirituality--a spirituality that continues to shape Southern Baptist churches in contemporary conflicts between moderates who urge tolerance and conservatives who require belief in scriptural inerrancy. Wills's analysis advances our understanding of the interaction between democracy and religious authority, and will appeal to scholars of American religion, culture, and history, as well as to Baptist observers.
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Religion & American Education: Rethinking a National Dilemma

Book by Warren A. Nord; University of North Carolina Press, 1995

Subjects:

Christian Education--United States, Church And State--United States, Moral Education--United States, Religion In The Public Schools--United States

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...would say, "I am an American"? In sum, political...liberalism disestablished religion, contributing to...the percentage of Americans who say that religion is "very important...Indeed, two-thirds of Americans believe that religion is losing its influence...
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Revolution and Religion: American Revolutionary War and the Reformed Clergy

Book by Keith L. Griffin; Paragon Press, 1994

Subjects:

Clergy--Middle Atlantic States--Political Activity, Just War Doctrine, Middle Atlantic States--Church History--18th Century, Middle Atlantic States--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, Middle Atlantic States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783, Reformed Church--Middle Atlantic States--Clergy

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Religion Revolution and Religion American Revolutionary War...Revolution and religion: American Revolutionary War...human inventions in religion--i.e., Catholicism...eighteenth century American thought, 57 but...
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Modern Kongo Prophets: Religion in a Plural Society

Book by Wyatt MacGaffey; Indiana University Press, 1983

Subjects:

Congo (Democratic Republic)--Religion, Prophets--Congo (Democratic Republic)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...time a member of the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their efforts to...secessionist regimes that sprang up in the Democratic Republic of Congo after it won its independence...association; forbade anyone to preach religion or receive tithes or gifts except in...
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Religion in the Struggle for Power: A Study in the Sociology of Religion

Book by J. Milton Yinger; Duke University Press, 1946

Subjects:

Church And Social Problems, Religion And Sociology

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...churches became the religion of the fortunate...instance, to the American scene. The same...because of its democratic character, had the...of the power of religion as they were able...movement of lay religion, the church severed...relations with the democratic tendencies that...

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Journal Articles on: democratic religion american

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Rethinking Protestantism and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America

Journal article by Newton J. Gaskill; Sociology of Religion, Vol. 58, 1997

Subjects:

Religion And Sociology

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...of Latin American politics...impediment to democratic consolidation...analyses of religion and foreign...study of religion in the US...of Latin American Protestantism...change and democratic consolidation...on Latin American experience. In Organized religion in the political...Issues in democratic consolidation...
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Religion and the Democratic Tradition

Journal article by Yaacov Ben-Shemesh; Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 30, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Democracy and Tradition (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...professor of religion at Princeton...view that the American democracy is...in which the democratic tradition has...the role of religion in democratic deliberations...development of American democratic institutions...
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Preparing for the Clothed Public Square: Teaching about Religion, Civic Education, and the Constitution

Journal article by Jay D. Wexler; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 43, 2002

Subjects:

Public schools--Laws, regulations, etc., Religion and law--Analysis, Religion--Study and teaching

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...significant role that religion has played in American life over the...importance of religion in American life--and in...fully in the democratic process. A school...teach about religion on the grounds...inappropriate fact of American civic life would...
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Religion Comes to School

Journal article by Gilbert T. Sewall; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 81, 1999

Subjects:

Education and state--Analysis, Religion in the public schools--Public opinion, United States Constitution. 1st Amendment

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...that provided an ethical dimension to American schooling? Scientism, secular efforts...public schools, it is doubtful that any religion-based code of moral conduct in schools...fulfilling life, and make possible a democratic and civilized culture. Parents are...
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Prospects for Religion in the Modern World

Journal article by Grace Davie; The Ecumenical Review, Vol. 52, 2000

Subjects:

Fundamentalism--Political aspects, Pentecostalism--Political aspects, Religion and civilization--Analysis, Religion and culture--Analysis, Religion and politics--Analysis, Religion and sociology--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...cultures and democratic politics...evident that religion diminished...understand American "exceptionalism...opposed to American -- forms of religion? They must...it is "too American" to explain patterns of religion beyond the...

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Magazine Articles on: democratic religion american

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To Reclaim Our Democratic Heritage

Magazine article; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, January 1997

Subjects:

Federal courts--Evaluation, Judicial activism--Moral and ethical aspects, Legitimacy of governments--Moral and ethical aspects, Political questions and judicial power--Moral and ethical aspects, United States. Supreme Court--Evaluation

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...morality is religion. No one can...nullified the democratic deliberations...decisions of the American people on...about the American democratic experiment...number of Americans who believe...country to its democratic heritage...again that religion in the public...
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The Democrats Get Religion

Magazine article by Ruth Conniff; The Progressive, Vol. 64, October 2000

Subjects:

Democratic Party--Political activity, Religion and politics--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...The Democrats Get Religion by Ruth...Earlier this year, Democratic pollster and Gore...pointed out in The American Prospect that "Democrats...conservatives. Getting religion, for the Democrats...Got to Do with the American Experiment? is a...action. Just as the Democratic candidates invoke...
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Communion & Communio

Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, August 2004

Subjects:

Abortion--Political aspects, Bishops--Political activity, Catholic Church--Political activity, Democratic Party (United States)--Social policy, Kerry, John F.--Religious aspects, Mass (Catholic Church)--Political aspects, Mass--Political aspects, Masses--Political aspects, Politicians--Religious aspects, Religion and politics--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Catholicism is compatible with American democracy. Some Democrats...correctly respond that the Democratic leadership is responsible...convention was moving the Democratic Party from the harbor of economic...alienate many middle-class Americans who had been the backbone...
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That Old-Time Religion

Magazine article by Michael Potemra; National Review, Vol. 55, September 15, 2003

Subjects:

The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith (Book)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...to fear that the faithful are a threat to liberal democratic values. . . . Despite what both their friends and...book is devoted to evidence showing how different American religion is from the depictions of it in secularist caricature...
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Religion and Liberal Democracy

Magazine article by James F. Harris; The Humanist, Vol. 66, May-June 2006

Subjects:

Democracy--Analysis, Democracy--Religious aspects, Liberalism--Analysis, Liberalism--Religious aspects, Religion and politics--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...non-hierarchical and, one might say, more democratic. Second, much of Protestant Christianity...to separate theology from politics and religion from the everyday civic lives of individuals...early Protestantism, and many forms of American Christian fundamentalism). Moreover...

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Newspaper Articles on: democratic religion american

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Conservatives Establish a Group to Counter ACLU: American Civil Rights Union Promises to Avoid Selected Defense of Liberal Bias

Newspaper article by Ralph Z. Hallow; The Washington Times, October 9, 1998

Subjects:

American Civil Liberties Union

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...as a counterpart on the right to the American Civil Liberties Union. "We want to...efforts to prohibit the free exercise of religion, infringe the right to bear arms and...presidential campaign, George Bush attacked his Democratic opponent, Massachusetts Gov. Michael...
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Members of Congress Find It Hard to Hide Religion

Newspaper article by Larry Witham; The Washington Times, January 20, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...resistance" to the religion category...little more Democratic, a little...analyst for Americans for Religious...went to the Democratic side, he...one-fifth of all Americans, said Roy...lawmakers religion can reveal...more about religion in American society...and leans Democratic," Mr. Beck...
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Religion on Display; Courting the Faithful

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 22, 2008

Subjects:

McCain, John--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...appeals to Pennsylvania voters by the two Democratic presidential candidates before todays...State (you know, the ones who "cling to religion"), make up 72 percent of the adult population...understood the role faith plays with the American people and in public life. Lyndon B...
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Lincoln Uses Religion to Advance War Aims

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 10, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...between evangelical Protestantism and the American anti-slavery impulse. Then, in the furnace...sons, Lincoln seemed not just to talk religion, but also to probe more deeply religious...articulate critic of Stephen Douglas and the Democratic Party establishment. It was at that time...
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ADL Demands Lieberman Drop Appeals to Religion

Newspaper article by Bill Sammon; The Washington Times, August 29, 2000

Subjects:

Lieberman, Joseph I.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Lieberman told Democratic activists hes...me because of my religion." "Hopefully...today for most Americans. And Al Gore and...mean "freedom from religion." He wants his...harshest Senate Democratic critic of President...parted and more Americans than ever before...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: democratic religion american

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American Revolution

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of the American Revolution (1961); A. Heimert, Religion and the American Mind (1966). For works of more general interest...Independence (1958); R. R. Palmer, The Age of the Democratic Revolution (1959); B. Bailyn, The Ideological...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...perfected the Democratic partys techniques...greater attention in American life, and in the...reestablishing democratic rule there. The...overhaul of the way American health care is...A. Heimert, Religion and the American Mind (1966...
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Frankel, Charles

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

FRANKEL, CHARLES 1917 79, American philosopher, b. New York City, grad...value theory, as well as on education and religion. His emphasis, like that of John Dewey...Modern Man (1956, rev. ed. 1959); The Democratic Prospect (1962); and Pleasures of Philosophy...
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Massachusetts

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the power of the Native Americans of southern New England...remained the established religion. Widespread anxiety over...especially in politics. Their religion (Roman Catholic) and their political faith (Democratic) definitely set them apart...
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Pike, James Albert

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

PIKE, JAMES ALBERT 1913 69, American Episcopal bishop, b. Oklahoma City. A...then became chaplain and head of the religion department at Columbia. From 1952 to...1963). In 1966 he joined the Center for Democratic Institutions, and two years later he...

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