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Author_Steven M. Tipton
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christianity
church and state
civil liberties
denominational strife
ecclesiology
ecumenical
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faith
faith-based initiatives
freedom
good news movement
interfaith
invasion
iraq
ird
jim wallis
mainline churches
methodists
moral majority
nonfiction
pat robertson
political science
politics
prophetic witness
protestant
religion
religious lobbies
united methodist
war on terror
Product details
- ISBN 9780226804743
- Weight: 907g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2008
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Since the 2000 presidential election, debate over the role of religion in public life has followed a narrow course as pundits and politicians alike have focused on the influence wielded by conservative Christians. But what about more mainstream Christians? Here, Steven M. Tipton examines the political activities of Methodists and mainline churches in this groundbreaking investigation into a generation of denominational strife among church officials, lobbyists, and activists. The result is an unusually detailed and thoughtful account that upends common stereotypes while asking searching questions about the contested relationship between church and state. Documenting a wide range of reactions to two radically different events - the invasion of Iraq and the creation of the faith-based initiatives program - Tipton charts the new terrain of religious and moral argument under the Bush administration from Pat Robertson to Jim Wallis.
He then turns to the case of the United Methodist Church, of which President Bush is a member, to uncover the twentieth-century history of their political advocacy, culminating in current threats to split the Church between liberal peace-and-justice activists and crusaders for evangelical renewal. "Public Pulpits" balances the firsthand drama of this internal account with a meditative exploration of the wider social impact that mainline churches have had in a time of diverging fortunes and diminished dreams of progress. An eminently fair-minded and ethically astute analysis of how churches keep moral issues alive in politics, "Public Pulpits" delves deep into mainline Protestant efforts to enlarge civic conscience and cast clearer light on the commonweal and offers a masterly overview of public religion in America.
Steven M. Tipton teaches sociology and religion at Emory University and its Candler School of Theology. He is coauthor of Habits of the Heart and The Good Society and the author of Getting Saved from the Sixties.
