Christianity and American democracy
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Christianity and American democracy
（The Alexis de Tocqueville lectures on American politics）
Harvard University Press, 2009
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"First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2009"--T.p. verso
Originally published: 2007
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-283) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Hugh Heclo offers a panoramic view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other.
Heclo shows that amid deeply felt religious differences, a Protestant colonial society gradually convinced itself of the truly Christian reasons for, as well as the enlightened political advantages of, religious liberty. By the mid-twentieth century, American democracy and Christianity appeared locked in a mutual embrace. But it was a problematic union vulnerable to fundamental challenge in the Sixties. Despite the subsequent rise of the religious right and glib talk of a conservative Republican theocracy, Heclo sees a longer-term, reciprocal estrangement between Christianity and American democracy.
Responding to his challenging argument, Mary Jo Bane, Michael Kazin, and Alan Wolfe criticize, qualify, and amend it. Heclo's rejoinder suggests why both secularists and Christians should worry about a coming rupture between the Christian and democratic faiths. The result is a lively debate about a momentous tension in American public life.
目次
Foreword Theda R. Skocpol 1. Christianity and Democracy in America Hugh Heclo 2. Democracy and Catholic Christianity in America Mary Jo Bane 3. Pluralism Is Hard Work--and the Work Is Never Done Michael Kazin 4. Whose Christianity? Whose Democracy? Alan Wolfe 5. Reconsidering Christianity and American Democracy Hugh Heclo Notes Acknowledgments About the Authors Index
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