POLITICS IN AMERICAN RELIGION TODAY

Religion and Politics in America advances five theories for placing in a meaningful context the sometimes bewildering complexity of relations among religion, politics, and culture in American society. The culture wars thesis illuminates the contours of religion and politics today by emphasizing Americans' deep social divisions over values and lifestyles. Conservatives stress the importance of traditional values: religion, marriage and family, discipline, heterosexual behavior, and opposition to abortion and gay sexuality. Liberals stress the value …

…religion is not an organized religion, I do believe that it is something that is thriving in American society. References Fowler Robert, Hertzke Allen and Olson Laura 1999 Religion and Politics in America, Westview Press Adams Lawrence 2002 Going Public: Christian Responsibility in a Divided America, Brazos Press. Wald Kenneth 2003 Religion and Politics in the United States, Rowman and Littlefield Craig Robert 1992 Religion and Radical Politics: An Alternative Christian Tradition in the United States Temple University Press.