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POLITICS AND RELIGION Books on Politics and Religion Abanes, Richard. American Militias: Rebellion, Racism & Religion. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1996. Abrams, Elliot. The Influence of Faith: Religious Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001. Aho, James. A. The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990. (Covers more than the subtitle suggests) Alexander-Moegerle, Gil. James Dobsons War on America. Amherst, N.Y: Prometheus Books, 1997. (Insider insights from a former staff member.) Appleby, R. Scott and Martin E. Marty. Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies and Militance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Arendt, Hannah. Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought. New York: Penguin Books, 1968. Armstrong, Karen. The Battle for God. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Averill, Llord J. Religious Right, Religious Wrong: A Critique of the Fundamentalist Phenomenon. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1989. Barber, Benjamin R. Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World. New York: Ballentine Books, 1996. Barker, Eileen ed. Of Gods and Men: New Religious Movements in the West. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1983. Barkun, Michael. Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement. Revised Edition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Barth, Karl. Church and State. Macon: Smyth & Helwys, Bellah, Robert N. The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial. Second Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Bellah, Robert N. and Greenspahn, Frederick E. Uncivil Religion: Interreligious Hostility in America. New York: Crossroad, 1987. Berger, Brigitte and Peter L. The War Over the Family: Capturing the Middle Ground. Garden City: AnchorPress/Doubleday, 1983. Berlet, Chip and Lyons, Matthew N. Right-Wing Population in America: Too Close for Comfort. New York: Guilford Press, 2000. Berliner, David C. and Bruce J. Biddle. The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Frauds, and the Attack on Americas Public Schools. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1995. Blanchard, Dallas. The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Rise of the Religious Right: From Polite to Fiery Protest. New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994. Boston, Robert. The Most Dangerous Man in America? Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996. Boston, Robert. Why the Religious Right is Wrong About Separation of Church & State. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 1993. Bracey, Gerald W. Setting the Record Straight: Responses to Misconceptions About Public Education in the United States. Alexandria, VA: Association for the Supervision of Curriculum Development, 1997. Brickner, Bryan W. The Promise Keepers: Politics and Promises. Lexington Books, 1999. Bridges, Tyler. The Rise of David Duke. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994. Brown, Ruth Murray. For a "Christian America": A History of the Religious Right. Prometheus Books, 2002. Bruce, Steve. The Rise and Fall of the New Christian Right. Oxford: Oxford University, 1988. Bryan, G. MCLeod. These Few Also Paid a Price: Testimonies of thirty southern whites who participated in the Civil Rights Movement. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2001. Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, The Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. New York: Simon & Shuster, 1995. Carter, Stephen L. The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion. New York: Basic Books, 1993. Castelli, Jim. A Plea for Common Sense: Resolving the Clash between Religion & Politics. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988. Clabaugh, Gary K. Thunder on the Right: The Protestant Fundamentalists. Chicago: Nelson Hall Co., 1974. Clarkson, Frederick. Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1997. Cousins, Norman. "In God We Trust" The Religious Beliefs and Ideas of the American Founding Fathers. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. Craig, Robert H. Religion and Radical Politics: An Alternative Christian Tradition in the United States. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. DAntonio, Michael. Fall From Grace: The Failed Crusade of the Christian Right. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. Davis, Derek and Marv Knox and Melissa Rogers and Mike Smith. Empowering Believers: Christian Citizenship Through the Culture Wars. Nashville: Baptist Center for Ethics, 1996. Diamond, Sara. Not by Politics Alone: Then Enduring Influence of the Christian Right. New York: Guilford Press, 1998. Douglas, R. Bruce. A Nation Under God? Essays on the Fate of Religion in American Public Life. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. Durham, Martin. The Christian Right, the Far Right and the Boundaries of American Conservatism. Manchester University Press, 2001. Emerson, Michael O. and Smith, Christian. Divided By Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Fuller, Edmund and David E. Green. God in the White House: The Faiths of American Presidents. New York: Crown Publishers, 1968. Gaddy, C. Welton. Faith and Politics: Whats a Christian to do? Macon: Peake Road, 1996. Gaddy, C. Welton. Profile of a Christian Citizen. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1974. Gamwell, Franklin I. The Meaning of Religious Freedom: Modern Politics and the Democratic Resolution. New York: SUNY Press, 1995. Garber, Marjorie and Walkowitz, Rebecca L. One Nation Under God: Religion and American Culture. New York: Routledge, 1999. George, John and Wilcox, Larry. American Extremists. New York: Prometheus Books, 1996. The definitive volume for coverage of both left wing and right wing extremists. Goen, C.C. Broken Churches, Broken Nation: Denominational Schisms and the Coming of the Civil War. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1985. Glover, Willis B. Biblical Origins of Modern Secular Culture: An Essay in Interpretation of Western History. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1984. Green, John C., Guth, James L., Smidt, Corwin E., and Kellstedt, Lyman A. Religion and the Culture Wars: Dispatches From the Front. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1996. Gushee, David P., ed. Christians and Politics Beyond the Culture Wars: An Agenda for Engagement. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, Hadden, Jeffrey K. and Charles E. Swann. Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1981. Hardesty, Jean. Mobilizing Resentment: Conservative Resurgence from the John Birch Society to the Promise Keepers. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. Hart, Roderick P. The Political Pulpit. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University, 1977. Haynes, Charles C. and Oliver Thomas, eds. Finding Common Ground: A First Amendment Guide to Religion and Public Education. Nashville: The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, 1994. House, H. Wayne and Thomas Ice. Dominion Theology: Blessing or Curse? An Analysis of Christian Reconstructionism. Portland: Multnomah, 1988. Hunter, James Davison. Before the Shooting Begins: Searching for Democracy in Americas Culture War. New York: Free Press, 1994. Hunter, James Davison. Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America. New York: Basic Books, 1991. Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations: Remaking of World Order. New York: Touchstone, 1996. Jurgensmeyer, Mark. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Kosmin, Barry A. and Seymour P. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society. New York: Harmony Books, 1993. Lader, Lawrence. Politics, Power & the Church: The Catholic Crisis and Its Challenge to American Pluralism. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987. Lerner, Michael. The Politics of Meaning. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1997. Lienesch, Michael. Redeeming America: Piety and Politics in the New Christian Right. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Lind, Michael. Up From Conservatism: Why the Right is Wrong for America. New York: Free Press, 1996. Martin, William. With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America. New York: Broadway Books, 1996. Marty, Martin E. and R. Scott Appleby. The Glory and the Power: The Fundamentalist Challenge to the Modern World. Boston: Beacon, 1992. Mead, Sidney E. The Nation with the Soul of a Church. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1985. Meyer, Donald. The Protestant Search for Political Realism, 1919-1941. Second Edition. Middletown, CN: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. Mouw, Richard J. Uncommon Decency: Christian Civility in an Uncivil World. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1992. Neuhaus, Richard John. The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984. (Accomodationist rather than strict separationist view of church-state relations) Neuhaus, Richard John and Michael Cromartie. Piety & Politics: Evangelicals and Fundamentalists Confront the World. Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1987. Noll, Mark A. One Nation Under God? Christian Faith and Political Action in America. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1988. Nord, Warren A. Religion and American Education: Rethinking a National Dilemma. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Oldfield, Duane M. The Right and the Righteous: The Christian Right Confronts the Republican Party. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1996. Riemer, Neal. ed. Let Justice Roll: Prophetic Challenges in Religion, Politics, and Society. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1996. Reiter, Jerry. Live From the Gates of Hell: An Insider's Look at the Antiabortion Underground. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2000. Rovere, Richard H. Senator Joe McCarthy. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959. Rozell, Mark J. and Wilcox, Clyde. Eds. God at the Grass Roots: The Christian Right in the 1994 Elections. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1995. Sabato, Larry J. and Glenn R. Simpson. Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics. New York: Random House, 1996. Schaeffer, Francis A. A Christian Manifesto. Revised Edition. Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1982. (This book and Whitehead's Second American Revolution spurred many Christian Fundamentalists to secular political activism. Both books echo Christian Reconstructionist themes. For a critique of Christian Reconstructionism see Clarkson's Eternal Hostility or House's Dominion Theology.) Segers, Mary C. Piety, Politics and Pluralism: Religion, the Courts and the 2000 Election. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001. Silk, Mark. Spiritual Politics: Religion and America Since World War II. New York: Touchstone, 1989. Simmons, Paul D., Editor. Freedom of Conscience: A Baptist/Humanist Dialogue. Prometheus Books, 2000. Sine, Tom. Cease Fire: Searching for Sanity in Americas Culture Wars. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995. Sittser, Gerald L. Loving Across Our Differences. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1994. Smidt, Corwin E., ed. In God We Trust? Religion and American Political Life. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, Smith, Timothy L. Revivalism and Social Reform in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Abingdon Press, 1957. Stern, Kenneth S. A Force Upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. Straub, Gerald Thomas. Salvation for Sale: An Insider's View of Pat Robertson's Ministry. New York: Prometheus Books, 1986. Streiker, Lowell. The Gospel Time Bomb: Ultrafundamentalism and the Future of America. New York: Prometheus Books, 1984. Swomley, John M. Confronting Church and State: Memoirs of an Activist. Amherst, NY: Humanist Press, 1997. Swomley, John M. Confronting Systems of Violence: Memoirs of a Peace Activist. Nyack, NY: Fellowship Publications, 1998. Tinder, Gerald. The Political Meaning of Christianity: The Prophetic Stance, An Interpretation. San Francisco: HarperCollins Publishers, 1989. Valentine, Foy. Citizenship for Christians. Nashville: Broadman, 1965. Wallis, Jim. The Soul of Politics: Beyond "Religious Right" and "Secular Left". New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995. Wallis, Jim. Who Speaks for God? New York: Dell Publishing, 1996. Washington, James Melvin. Frustrated Fellowship: The Black Baptist Quest for Social Power. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1986. Watson, Justin. The Christian Coalition: Dreams of Restoration, Demands for Recognition. St. Martins Press, 1997. White, Mel. Stranger at the Gate: To be Gay and Christian in America. New York: Penguin/Plume Books, 1995. (Insider insights from a speech writer for Ollie North and a ghost writer for Jerry Falwell) Whitehead, John W. The Second American Revolution. Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1982. (This book and Schaeffer's Christian Manifesto spurred many Christian Fundamentalists to secular political activism. Both books echo Christian Reconstructionist themes. For a critique of Christian Reconstructionism see Clarkson's Eternal Hostility or House's Dominion Theology.) Wood, James E. Jr. Nationhood and the Kingdom: The Role of Religion in the Life of a Nation. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1977. Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988. Yarbrough, Slayden A., ed. Baptists and the White House. Baptist History and Heritage Vol. XXXII, No. 1, January 1997. Zwier, Robert. Born-Again Politics: The New Christian Right in America. 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