Politics and piety

In: Dissent: a journal devoted to radical ideas and the values of socialism and democracy, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 4-12

Abstract

Explores religion's presence and contradictory role in public life, especially in politics, throughout US history, despite the founders' professed secularism and the constitutional separation of church and state, religion in the 2000 presidential campaign, and President George W. Bush's faith-based initiative. Included in a collection of articles under the overall title "After the election: Plan B".