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Religious Leaders and Faith-Based Politics: Ten Profiles offers a
powerful and timely analysis of the dynamic relationship between
religious leaders of all faiths and political activism in the
United States. By examining the lives and works of such prominent
leaders as Reverend Floyd Flake, Bishop T. D. Jakes, Reverend Al
Sharpton, Elder Dallin H. Oakes, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Reverend
Benjamin Chavis-Muhammed, and Sister Maureen Fiedler, this volume
reveals an American tradition of religious influence on public
policy that continues to be an important hallmark of our democracy.
From the colonial era to the present, religious leaders have raised
AmericansO moral and political awareness of countless issues,
including revolution, slavery, temperance, civil rights, and, most
recently, the culture wars. This book is the first to explore the
renewed and intense commitment of evangelicals, Catholics, Muslims,
and Jews to preach, teach, and participate in politics today. Among
the questions answered in this book: are religious leaders today as
active and vocal as the radicals of the turbulent 1960s? Are these
activists still involved in civil rights or have other contentious
topics such as abortion and traditional family values preempted
such issues? In the wake of the 2000 election and at the start of a
new administration committed to elevating the role of religion in
politics, Jo Renee Formicola, Hubert Morken, and this prominent
collection of contributors ask might we expect greater American
religious involvement in the years ahead? This is essential reading
for anyone interested in religious and political activism, or the
evolving relationship between church and state in America.
Everson Revisited explores the consequences and future implications
of Everson v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court case
that permitted the use of tax revenue to transport students to
parochial schools while simultaneously calling for an impenetrable
'wall of separation' between religion and public schools.
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