The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right
In The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right, Jon Shields provocatively argues that conservative Christians have “helped create a more participatory democracy” (p. 1) and “labored to inculcate deliberative norms in their rank-and-file activists” (p. 2). He forcefully objects to popular and schol...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2009, Volume: 51, Issue: 4, Pages: 719-721 |
| Review of: | The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009) (Kosek, Joseph Kip)
The democratic virtues of the Christian right (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009) (Kosek, Joseph Kip) The democratic virtues of the Christian right (Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press, 2009) (Kosek, Joseph Kip) |
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| Summary: | In The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right, Jon Shields provocatively argues that conservative Christians have “helped create a more participatory democracy” (p. 1) and “labored to inculcate deliberative norms in their rank-and-file activists” (p. 2). He forcefully objects to popular and scholarly depictions of these activists as anti-liberal, irrational, or quasi-fascist. The book's sophisticated argument makes it essential reading for scholars of American religion, politics, and social movements, but it is accessible enough to interest nonspecialists as well., Political scientists, Shields explains, have too seldom engaged the subject of religion. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csq013 |