Religion and Public Policy: An Introduction

Journal of Policy History

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-18

  Heclo, Hugh ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85012500611     PISSN: 08980306     EISSN: 15284190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jph.2001.0025     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Sydney E. Ahlstrom, A Religious History of the American People (New Haven, 1972), 776.
2. Andrew Kohut et al. The Diminishing Divide: Religion's Changing Role in American Politics (Washington, D.C., 2000).
3. José Casanova, Public Religions in the Modern World (Chicago, 1994)
4. early findings from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' five-volume publication on worldwide fundamentalism appear in Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, The Glory and the Power: The Fundamentalist Challenge to the Modern World (Boston, 1992).
5. George M. Marsden, The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (New York, 1994).
6. Robert Wuthnow, After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1998)
7. David G. Myers, The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty (New Haven, 2000).
8. Mark A. Noll, ed. Religion and American Politics (New York, 1990)
9. John T. Noonan Jr. The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1998).
10. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. J. P. Mayer and Max Lerner (New York, 1966), 273.
11. Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore, The Godless Constitution (New York, 1996).
12. Explanations for the Constitution's godless language are examined historically by John F. Wilson, “Religion, Government, and Power in the New American Nation,” in Noll, Religion and American Politics, 77–91; and
13. Daniel L. Dreisbach, “In Search of a Christian Commonwealth,” Baylor Law Review 48:4 (Fall 1996): 927–1000.
14. See Noonan, The Lustre of Our Country, passim.
15. Deeper interpretations of the historical transformation in these transactions cannot be dealt with here. A provocative account is Marcel Gauchet's The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion (Princeton, 1997).
16. For a valuable counterpoint, see Charles Taylor's foreword to this volume as well as his Sources of the Self (Cambridge, Mass. 1989) and
17. A Catholic Modernity? Marianist Award Lecture Dayton, Ohio, 1996.
18. See Glenn Tinder, Tolerance and Community (Columbia, Mo. 1995), chap. 3.
19. This is exactly the viewpoint Richard Niebuhr identified behind the Founders commitment to religious freedom. See his 1939 lecture “The Limitation of Power and Religious Liberty,” reproduced in Harvard Divinity School, Religion & Values in Public Life 3:2 (Winter 1995).
20. For an important argument about the way federal government growth helped catalyze religious conflicts, see Robert Wuthnow, The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War II (Princeton, 1988).
21. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (Boston, 1962), which first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker.
22. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” Wired Magazine, April 2000.
23. Frank Levy, The New Dollars and Dreams (New York, 1998).
24. Richard E. Wentz, The Culture of Religious Pluralism (Boulder, 1997).
25. For a recent recognition of this danger from two leaders of America's Religious Right, see Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson, Blinded by Might (Grand Rapids, Mich. 1999).
26. Casanova, Public Religions in the Modern World, 3 and 5. The about-face in secularization theories is well illustrated in Peter L. Berger, ed. The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics (Washington, D.C., 1999).
27. As one leading scholar of religion put it, ours is a “religio-secular, operative-passional, sacro-secular life and society.” Martin E. Marty, “The Sacred and Secular in American History,” in M. L. Bradbury and James B. Gilbert, eds. Transforming Faith (New York, 1989), 1, 8.
28. Maurice Friedman, Martin Buber's Life and Work: The Middle Years 1923-1945 (New York, 1983), vol. 2, 137.
29. Acceptance speech before the Republican Party state convention, Springfield, Illinois, 16 June 1858.