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Tables of Contents for What's God Got to Do With the American Experiment?
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xi
Glenn Loury
Acknowledgments
xv
God and the American Experiment: An Introduction
1
16
E.J. Dionne Jr.
John J. Dilulio Jr.
PART ONE RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES
America's Ever-Changing Religious Landscape
17
8
Richard N. Ostling
America's Changing Political and Moral Values
25
7
Robert J. Blendon
John M. Benson
Mollyann Brodie
Drew E. Altman
Richard Morin
Claudia Deane
Nina Kjellson
The Conservative Protestant Family: Traditional Rhetoric, Progressive Practice
32
9
W. Bradford Wilcox
John P. Bartkowski
PART TWO POLITICS AND WITNESS
A Screwtape Letter for the Twenty-First Century: What a Senior Devil Might Think about Religion and Politics
41
5
Peter Wehner
First Trombone
46
5
Taylor Branch
Blinded by Might: The Problem with Heaven on Earth
51
5
Cal Thomas
Ed Dobson
Progressive Politics and Visions---and, Uh, Well...God
56
11
Richard Parker
Learning from Nehemiah
67
5
Kurt L. Schmoke
Having Faith in Our Neighborhoods: The Front Porch Alliance
72
9
Stephen Goldsmith
PART THREE DOES GOD TAKE SIDES?
Conscience and the Public Square: Heeding the Still, Small Voice
81
9
Patrick Glynn
WWJD?
88
2
Staci Simmons
Judging the President
90
6
Alan Wolfe
A Response to Alan Wolfe
96
2
Max L. Stackhouse
The Clinton Scandal and the Culture of the Therapeutic
98
8
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Errant Evangelical?: A Presidential Counselor in the Line of Fire
106
9
Tony Campolo
PART FOUR FAITH-BASED SOCIAL ACTION
The Third Stage: New Frontiers of Religious Liberty
115
6
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Supporting Black Churches: Faith, Outreach, and the Inner-City Poor
121
7
John J. DiIulio Jr.
``No Aid to Religion?'' Charitable Choice and the First Amendment
128
10
Ronald J. Sider
Heidi Rolland Unruh
The Wrong Way to Do Right: A Challenge to Charitable Choice
138
8
Melissa Rogers
What's an FBO?
146
7
Jim Wallis
Our Hidden Safety Net
153
7
Ram Cnaan
Gaynor I. Yancey
Religion and Public Life
160
11
James Q. Wilson
Notes
171
6
Contributors
177
4
Index
181