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Christianity and American democracy / Hugh Heclo ; with responses by Mary Jo Bane, Michael Kazin, Alan Wolfe.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Alexis de Tocqueville lectures on American politicsPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 299 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674027053
  • 0674027051
  • 0674032306
  • 9780674032309
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Christianity and American democracy.DDC classification:
  • 261.70973 22
LOC classification:
  • BR517 .H45 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Christianity and democracy in America / Hugh Heclo -- Democracy and Catholic Christianity in America / Mary Jo Bane -- Pluralism is hard work, and the work is never done / Michael Kazin -- Whose Christianity? Whose Democracy? / Alan Wolfe -- Reconsidering Christianity and American democracy / Hugh Heclo.
Summary: Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Heclo offers a panoramic view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other over the years, and how their relationship is changing in the present day. Responding to his challenging argument, Mary Jo Bane, Michael Kazin, and Alan Wolfe criticize, qualify, and amend it. The result is a lively debate about a momentous tension in American public life.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-283) and index.

Christianity and democracy in America / Hugh Heclo -- Democracy and Catholic Christianity in America / Mary Jo Bane -- Pluralism is hard work, and the work is never done / Michael Kazin -- Whose Christianity? Whose Democracy? / Alan Wolfe -- Reconsidering Christianity and American democracy / Hugh Heclo.

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Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Heclo offers a panoramic view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other over the years, and how their relationship is changing in the present day. Responding to his challenging argument, Mary Jo Bane, Michael Kazin, and Alan Wolfe criticize, qualify, and amend it. The result is a lively debate about a momentous tension in American public life.

In English.

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