The Democratic Virtues of the Christian 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 Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right write by Jon A. Shields. This book was released on 2009-02-02. The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Christian Right is frequently accused of threatening democratic values. But in The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right, Jon Shields argues that religious conservatives have in fact dramatically increased and improved democratic participation and that they are far more civil and reasonable than is commonly believed. Shields interviewed leaders of more than thirty Christian Right organizations, observed movement activists in six American cities, and analyzed a wide variety of survey data and movement media. His conclusions are surprising: the Christian Right has reinvigorated American politics and fulfilled New Left ideals by mobilizing a previously alienated group and by refocusing politics on the contentious ideological and moral questions that motivate citizens. Shields also finds that, largely for pragmatic reasons, the vast majority of Christian Right leaders encourage their followers to embrace deliberative norms in the public square, including civility and secular reasoning. At the same time, Shields highlights a tension between participatory and deliberative ideals since Christian Right leaders also nurture moral passions, prejudices, and dogmas to propel their movement. Nonetheless, the Christian Right's other democratic virtues help contain civic extremism, sharpen the thinking of activists, and raise the level and tenor of political debate for all Americans.
Democracy and Tradition
Democracy and Tradition - 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 Democracy and Tradition write by Jeffrey Stout. This book was released on 2004. Democracy and Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Asking how the citizens of modern democracy can reason with one another, this book carves out a controversial position between those who view religious voices as an anathema to democracy and those who believe democratic society is a moral wasteland because such voices are not heard.
The Religion of Democracy
The Religion of Democracy - 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 Religion of Democracy write by Amy Kittelstrom. This book was released on 2015. The Religion of Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first people in the world to call themselves 'liberals' were New England Christians in the early republic, for whom being liberal meant being receptive to a range of beliefs and values. The story begins in the mid-eighteenth century, when the first Boston liberals brought the Enlightenment into Reformation Christianity, tying equality and liberty to the human soul at the same moment these root concepts were being tied to democracy. The nineteenth century saw the development of a robust liberal intellectual culture in America, built on open-minded pursuit of truth and acceptance of human diversity. By the twentieth century, what had begun in Boston as a narrow, patrician democracy transformed into a religion of democracy in which the new liberals of modern America believed that where different viewpoints overlap, common truth is revealed. The core American principles of liberty and equality were never free from religion but full of religion.
Christodemocracy and the Alternative Democratic Theory of America’s Christian Right
Christodemocracy and the Alternative Democratic Theory of America’s Christian 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 Christodemocracy and the Alternative Democratic Theory of America’s Christian Right write by Gabriel S. Hudson. This book was released on 2016-06-25. Christodemocracy and the Alternative Democratic Theory of America’s Christian Right available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book evaluates the democratic theory of America’s Christian Right (CR). The CR has been examined extensively in academic literature. However, most analyses focus on its origins, policy preferences, or successful mobilization. Hudson instead examines the normative assumptions about governance that inform CR activism. The CR has its own answers to the core questions asked in democratic theory, such as “What legitimizes power?” and “What is the proper relationship between the state and the individual?” The author outlines ten normative assumptions of the CR and compares each to its counterpoint in liberal democratic theory. Much of what the CR believes about democracy comes from the same authors as modern and postmodern democratic theory but differs in its interpretation and application. The book describes in detail the theory of CR and demonstrates how the CR operates from a different view of governance than is usually associated with the United States.
Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right
Family Values and the Rise of the Christian 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 Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right write by Seth Dowland. This book was released on 2015-12-17. Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right chronicles how the family values agenda became so powerful in American political life and why it appealed to conservative evangelical Christians.
