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Christianity and Civil Society - The Contemporary Debate (Hardcover, New)
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Christianity and Civil Society - The Contemporary Debate (Hardcover, New)
Series: Rockwell Lecture S.
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Questions about civil society have been reopened in recent years
with increasing urgency. How can we preserve and protect democracy?
Is it possible to bring a moral dimension back into public life?
How strong or weak do we want government to be? What can motivate
us to be better, more responsibly engaged citizens? In this book,
well-known author Robert Wuthnow presents an engaging and
provocative exploration of the role of Christianity in civil
society which, he says, "applies to other U.S. religions as will."
Professor Wuthnow considers three aspects of the relationship
between Christianity and civil society: (1) whether civil society
is in jeopardy and what effects the declining influence of
Christianity has on civil society; (2) whether Christians can be
civil, including an examination of the conflicts that have arisen
among religious groups in the public arena and the so-called
culture wars that many in the media have been discussing; and (3)
the growing multiculturalism in the United States, how Christian
groups are responding to the new diversity, and how Christianity
can regain a critical voice for itself in these debates. Robert
Wuthnow is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor of Social Sciences
and Director of the Center for the Study of American Religion at
Princeton University. He is the author of fifteen books, including
Learning to Care: Elementary Kindness in an Age of Indifference and
God Mammon in America.
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