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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Heclo, Hugh. Christianity and American democracy. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)451200364 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hugh Heclo; Mary Jo Bane; Michael Kazin; Alan Wolfe |
ISBN: | 9780674027053 0674027051 0674032306 9780674032309 |
OCLC Number: | 451200364 |
Awards: | Nominated for Merle Curti Award 2008 Nominated for Lawrence W. Levine Award 2008 Nominated for J. David Greenstone Book Prize 2008 Nominated for John Hope Franklin Publication Prize 2008 Nominated for Hubert Morken Award 2009 Nominated for David and Elaine Spitz Prize 2009 |
Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 299 pages) |
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. |
Series Title: | Alexis de Tocqueville lectures on American politics. |
Responsibility: | Hugh Heclo ; with responses by Mary Jo Bane, Michael Kazin, Alan Wolfe. |
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In this compelling volume, Hugh Heclo is exceedingly precise on what he takes Christianity and democracy to mean; on what Alexis de Tocqueville thought about the two; and on why he feels the successful American confluence of Christianity and democracy has been under grave threat since the 1960s. The admirable precision of Heclo's argument elicits, in turn, admirably precise rejoinders from three distinguished scholars. The result is a very fine book on a very important subject. -- Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame, author of <i>The Civil War as a Theological Crisis</i> Heclo makes a strong case for the importance of Christianity in the shaping of American democracy. -- E. J. Eisenach * Choice * Hugh Heclo offers an elegant and thoughtful essay in Christianity and American Democracy, together with responses by two political scientists and a historian... Heclo argues that not only does American democracy have a Christianity problem, but Christianity has a democracy problem. There is an inherent tension between religious commitment and political allegiance...and reconciling them is always a fudge of some kind. Heclo rehearses, lucidly and economically, the history of America's different modes of fudging the issue. He documents the input of Christian ideas into the development of the democratic concept of the individual... Hugh Heclo's book shows clearly that America's culture wars are just a specific case of the general problem of religion in democratic pluralist polities. -- Bernice Martin * Times Literary Supplement * Let me say it straight out: Hugh Heclo's Christianity and American Democracy is one of the most suggestive books on religion and the public square to have appeared in some years. -- Richard John Neuhaus * First Things * [A] deeply engaging book... Heclo's book performs a valuable service. -- Thomas E. Schneider * Claremont Review of Books * Read more...


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