Bloomsbury Home
A Public Faith
Evangelicals and Civic Engagement
A Public Faith
Evangelicals and Civic Engagement
This product is usually dispatched within 1 week
- Delivery and returns info
-
Free CA delivery on orders $40 or over
Description
Conservative Protestants are mentioned repeatedly in the ongoing conversation about social capital, individualism, and community in the United States. As John Wilson notes in his introduction, evangelicals are frequently discussed either as a threat to civil society or as apparent counterexamples to the prevailing view of American society's fragmentation. The essays in this volume take another look at the role of evangelicals in American civic life. The prominent contributors examine evangelicals' beliefs and activity on topics ranging from bioethics to race relations and welfare reform to international human rights. Taken together, the essays show that, contrary to what critics have proclaimed, the social commitment of evangelicals extends considerably beyond family-related issues, and that their activity in the public sphere makes an essential contribution to the public good. Clearly written and persuasively argued, A Public Faith: Evangelicals and Civic Engagement is a powerful correction to the misconceptions about evangelicals that abound in the current civil-society debate. Co-published with the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Introduction: Correcting Misconceptions
Chapter 3 About Evangelicals and Civil Society
Chapter 4 Evangelical Protestants and Civic Engagement: An Overview
Chapter 5 The Christian Right: Evolution, Expansion, Contraction
Chapter 6 Conservative Protestants and the Family: Resisting, Engaging, or Accommodating Modernity?
Chapter 7 The Evangelical Response to Homosexuality: A Survey, Critique, and Advisory
Chapter 8 Evangelicals and the Same-Sex 'Marriage' Debate
Chapter 9 Evangelicals and Abortion
Chapter 10 Evangelicals and Bioethics: An Extraordinary Failure
Chapter 11 Evangelicals, Welfare Reform, and Care for the Poor
Chapter 12 Evangelicals and Charitable Choice
Chapter 13 The Loyal Opposition: Evangelicals and Public Schools
Chapter 14 Faith that Separates: Evangelicals and Black-White Race Relations
Chapter 15 Creating a Diverse Urban Evangelicalism:Youth Ministry as a Model
Chapter 16 Evangelicals and International Engagement
Chapter 17 Notes
Chapter 18 Index of Names
Chapter 19 About the Ethics and Public Policy Center
Product details
| Published | Sep 03 2003 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9780742531000 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Dimensions | 236 x 158 mm |
| Series | Ethics and Public Policy Center |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Reviews
Related Titles
