Close Encounters With the Religious Right - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Close Encounters With the Religious Right write by Robert Boston. This book was released on 2011-04-29. Close Encounters With the Religious Right available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Having spent the last 12 years doggedly tracking the religious right, Boston now offers revealing insights about its message and intentions, including its campaign to do away with separation of church and state, privacy rights, and religious liberty. Photos.
Why the Religious Right Is Wrong About Separation of Church and State
Why the Religious Right Is Wrong About Separation of Church and State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why the Religious Right Is Wrong About Separation of Church and State write by Robert Boston. This book was released on 2010-09-30. Why the Religious Right Is Wrong About Separation of Church and State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Award-winning journalist Robert Boston lambastes the zealots of the Religious Right for spreading misinformation about the constitutional principle of the separation of church and state. Boston reveals how a band of ultraconservative religious groups with a political agenda - led primarily by televangelist Pat Robertson - is conducting a systematic war aginst the separation of church and state. The tactics of these groups are designed to exploit unfounded fears and turn the American people against the separationist principle. They will not rest, Boston says, until the United States has become a theocracy. To expose the Religious Right's blatant distortions of U.S. history and correct its skewed analysis of legal rulings, Boston objectively reviews the evolution of church/state relations in the United States and looks at how the separation principle has been applied by the courts. He also examines efforts by sectarian groups to win government support for their schools, the school prayer issue, the history of the free exercise of religion, and the controversial role of religion in the public square. Published in cooperation with Americans United for the Separation of Church and State
Sojourners in the Wilderness
Sojourners in the Wilderness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sojourners in the Wilderness write by Corwin E. Smidt. This book was released on 1997. Sojourners in the Wilderness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While the Christian Right has been the subject of a good deal of scholarly analysis, it has not been adequately studied within a comparative context -- across time, across different institutional systems, or across different religious communities. In Sojourners in the Wilderness, a host of distinguished scholars examine these dimensions of the Christian Right. The contributors analyze the Christian Right historically -- what is its relationship today with earlier manifestations? How have its organizational structures and strategies changed over time? Sociologically -- what are the current opportunities for Christian Right inroads within African-American, Catholic, and Jewish communities?; and politically -- what accounts for the affinity between many evangelical Protestants and the Christian Right within the American political context, while such an affinity appears to be lacking in other political contexts? All of those interested in religion's role in politics and history will find this book valuable.
Taking Liberties
Taking Liberties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taking Liberties write by Robert Boston. This book was released on 2014. Taking Liberties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A concise and lucid explanation of what religious freedom is and isn'tncreasingly, conservative religious groups are using religious liberty as a sword to lash out at others. In this forcefully argued defense of the separation of church and state, Robert Boston makes it clear that the religious freedom guaranteed in the First Amendment is an individual right, the right of personal conscience, not a license allowing religious organizations to discriminate against and control others. The book examines the controversy over birth control, same-sex marriage, religion in public schools, the intersection of faith and politics, and the "war on Christmas," among other topics. Boston concludes with a series of recommendations for resolving clashes between religious liberty claims and individual rights."
The New Religious Right
The New Religious Right - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Religious Right write by Walter H. Capps. This book was released on 1990. The New Religious Right available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the religious right through the eyes of the movement's leaders, including Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Jim and Tammy Bakker.
