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Author : Richard V. Pierard,Robert Dean Linder
Publisher : Zondervan Publishing Company
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015013513331
Author : M. Rozell,G. Whitney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230604155
This volume opens a new avenue toward understanding the politics and policies of many US presidents. As the essays in this book reveal, religion has had an enormous impact on many critical presidencies in US history. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, these essays reveal the deeply religious side to Truman, Eisenhower, and Reagan, among others.
Author : David O'Connell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351517119
God Wills It is a comprehensive study of presidential religious rhetoric. Using careful analysis of hundreds of transcripts, David O'Connell reveals the hidden strategy behind presidential religious speech. He asks when and why religious language is used, and when it is, whether such language is influential.Case studies explore the religious arguments presidents have made to defend their decisions on issues like defense spending, environmental protection, and presidential scandals. O'Connell provides strong evidence that when religious rhetoric is used public opinion typically goes against the president, the media reacts harshly to his words, and Congress fails to do as he wants. An experimental chapter casts even further doubt on the persuasiveness of religious rhetoric.God Wills It shows that presidents do not talk this way because they want to. Presidents like Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush were quite uncomfortable using faith to promote their agendas. They did so because they felt they must. God Wills It shows that even if presidents attempt to call on the deity, the more important question remains: Will God come when they do?
Author : Nicole Janz
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783643104687
After September 11, news media reported that U.S. president George W. Bush used overly religious language. The "theologian in chief" was believed to promote his personal agenda as a born again Christian. Such views, however, are a striking misinterpretation. This study shows that Bush's references to God and the idea that America must fulfill God's work on earth can all be explained through the concept of American civil religion. "...is likely to reinvigorate and expand discursive studies dedicated to understanding contemporary instantiations of American civil religion. That she (Janz) has been able to refocus and reframe international attention on such an important and unique American phenomenon is all the better". Steven R. Goldzwig, Marquette Univ., Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2012.
Author : Jason A. Edwards,Joseph M. Valenzano
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498541497
The tie that binds all Americans, regardless of their demographic background, is faith in the American system of government. This faith manifests as a form of civil, or secular, religion with its own core documents, creeds, oaths, ceremonies, and even individuals. In The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion: Symbols, Sinners, and Saints, contributors seek to examine some of those core elements of American faith by exploring the proverbial saints, sinners and dominant symbols of the American system.
Author : Bruce J Clemenger
Publisher : Castle Quay Books
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781988928807
This book examines the founding non-sectarian approach to Canadian statecraft that accommodated religious and cultural diversity. The 1960’s promise of political liberalism embraced in Canada was to provide a philosophy of government that facilitates the individual's vision and pursuit of the good life. Decades later, the promotion of individual autonomy and fraternity by governments and the courts threatens to undermine the very freedom governments claim to promote and protect. Bruce J. Clemenger presents a biblically-based model of public and political engagement and a defense of religious freedom, especially the freedom to disagree, in an increasingly secularist state. A timely work.
Author : Keith Bates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Chrisitianity and politics
ISBN : 1936670518
Author : Gary Scott Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195300604
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Author : Richard G. Hutcheson
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015014588787
Author : Christopher B. Chapp
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801465246
From Reagan's regular invocation of America as "a city on a hill" to Obama's use of spiritual language in describing social policy, religious rhetoric is a regular part of how candidates communicate with voters. Although the Constitution explicitly forbids a religious test as a qualification to public office, many citizens base their decisions about candidates on their expressed religious beliefs and values. In Religious Rhetoric and American Politics, Christopher B. Chapp shows that Americans often make political choices because they identify with a "civil religion," not because they think of themselves as cultural warriors. Chapp examines the role of religious political rhetoric in American elections by analyzing both how political elites use religious language and how voters respond to different expressions of religion in the public sphere. Chapp analyzes the content and context of political speeches and draws on survey data, historical evidence, and controlled experiments to evaluate how citizens respond to religious stumping. Effective religious rhetoric, he finds, is characterized by two factors—emotive cues and invocations of collective identity—and these factors regularly shape the outcomes of American presidential elections and the dynamics of political representation. While we tend to think that certain issues (e.g., abortion) are invoked to appeal to specific religious constituencies who vote solely on such issues, Chapp shows that religious rhetoric is often more encompassing and less issue-specific. He concludes that voter identification with an American civic religion remains a driving force in American elections, despite its potentially divisive undercurrents.
Author : M. Rozell,G. Whitney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230607354
George W. Bush's religiosity has invited much analysis and controversy about the impact of religion on government. This collection of leading scholars' essays first examines the impact of various religions voting groups on the 2004 presidential campaign, and then reviews and assesses the impact of religion on the policies of the Bush presidency.
Author : Gastón Espinosa
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0231143338
This book challenges the idea that the mixing of religion and presidential politics is a new phenomenon. It explores how presidents have drawn on their religious upbringing, rhetoric, ideas, and beliefs to promote their domestic and foreign policies to the nation. This influence is evident in Washington's decision to add "so help me God" to the presidential oath, accusations by Adam's supporters that Jefferson was an infidel, Lincoln's biblical metaphors during the Civil War, and FDR's call to fight against Nazi totalitarianism on behalf of Judeo-Christian civilization. It is also apparent in Truman's support for Israel, Eisenhower's Cold War decision to add "In God We Trust" on American currency, the debate over JFK's Catholicism, Jimmy Carter's born-again Christianity, Reagan's "Evil Empire" speech, Clinton's public repentance, and George W. Bush's "crusade" against Islamic terrorists. This volume explores these issues of religion and power in the presidencies of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush through scholarly interpretations, primary sources, and illustrations.
Author : Ronald L. Weed,John von Heyking
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813217246
The essays in this volume blend historical and philosophical reflection with concern for contemporary political problems. They show that the causes and motivations of civil religion are a permanent fixture of the human condition, though some of its manifestations and proximate causes have shifted in an age of multiculturalism, religious toleration, and secularization
Author : Russell E. Richey,Donald G. Jones
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015001827610
American Civil Religion brings together ten distinguished scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine and discuss America's common faith.
Author : Niels C. Nielsen
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781614480617
Election 2008 turned out to be a watershed contests, looking to crucial decisions of policy change about the war in Iraq, the international economy, global warming, social security and immigration. God in the Obama Era is written for general readers and is designed to help give objectivity and perspective on debated issues. Its approach is narrative and chronological, not dogmatic. Its premise is that the contemporary presidency stands in a longer historical tradition, which conditions both philosophical, and value judgments. A scholar, who has written in both the history and philosophy of religion, the author is interested in the long term moral values and religious symbols that motivate both voters and public officials. Of course, he is not so naïve as to suppose that truth is always on one side of the election divide. Clearly, the U. S. Constitution guarantees both freedom of worship and the non-establishment of religion. But faith convictions remain a powerful ideological force in American politics.