Faith in Politics
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780815773740
Subjects: Politics / Current Events; United States; Political Science; Government - U.S. Government; Religion and politics; Politics/International Relations; Politics - Current Events; Civics & Citizenship; History & Theory - General; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Religion: general; USA; Government - National; History
First sentence: Americans have always been, as Justice William Douglas repeatedly pointed out in the Supreme Court opinions he wrote on relations between religion and the state in the 1950s, "a religious people."
Description: "According to current polls, about 85 percent of Americans identify with some religious faith and more than 40 percent say they attend religious services at least once a week. In recent years, religious observance - and even religious belief - have become important factors influencing voter choice. Active participation in electoral politics by some religious groups has fueled apprehensions that the traditional separation of church and state may be threatened.".

"In Faith in Politics, Reichley explores the history of religion in American public life and considers some practical and philosophic questions affecting future participation by religious groups in the formation of public policy.".

"Reichley begins by examining the various attitudes and points of view of strict separationists, liberal social activists, moderate accommodationists, and direct interventionists. He goes on to discuss the way religion and politics relate to each other through a theoretic structure of seven value systems: monism, absolutism, ecstasism, egoism, collectivism, civil humanism, and transcendental idealism."--BOOK JACKET.