Search results

The controversy over mixing religion and politics has not kept religion apart from government. Religious groups participate in a wide variety of political activities. But religious groups in the United States are not organized as political parties or political machines. There is a relation between religious affiliation and party affiliation. The correlation, however, does not usually indicate a "religious" vote. In part, the relation reflects socio-economic status. For Catholics and Jews it is very much a result of awareness of minority status. As minority awareness declines, trends in voting change. There is no pattern of voting for or against candidates because of their religion. The importance of religion in a presidential election cannot be assessed on the basis of other elections. The election of a Catholic president would not change the nature of our government, but it would have an effect on American politics.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- PART I RELIGION AND REGIME -- 1 Religion and Politics in Comparative and Historical Perspective -- 2 The Iranian Revolution in Comparative Perspective -- 3 Rendering unto Caesar? Religious Competition and Catholic Political Strategy in Latin America, 1962-79 -- 4 Warring Gods? Theological Tales -- 5 Buddhaputra and Bhumiputra? Dilemmas of Modern Sinhala Buddhist Monks in Relation to Ethnic and Political Conflict -- 6 The War in Former Yugoslavia and Religion -- 7 Democracy and Religious Politics: Evidence from Belgium -- PART II THE POLITICS OF CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS -- 8 Religious Capital and Capital Religions: Cross-Cultural and Non-Legal Factors in the Separation of Church and State -- 9 Secularism and the State: Towards Clarity and Global Comparison -- 10 The New Religious State -- 11 The Politics of Ideology: The Papal Struggle with Liberalism -- 12 Jewish Messianism, Religious Zionism and Israeli Politics: The Impact and Origins of Gush Emunim -- 13 The Evolving Regulatory Structure of European Church-State Relationships -- 14 Church and State in Spain from the Civil War to the Return of Democracy -- PART III RELIGION AND ELECTORAL POLITICS -- 15 Regional and Religious Support of Political Parties and Effects on their Issue Positions -- 16 Religious vs. Linguistic vs. Class Voting: The "Crucial Experiment" of Comparing Belgium, Canada, South Africa, and Switzerland -- 17 Politics and the Pulpit: The Case of Protestant Europe -- 18 In From the Cold? Christian Parties in Scandinavia -- 19 Modernity and Fundamentalism: The New Christian Right in America -- 20 Cultural Conflict in American Politics: Religious Traditionalism, Postmaterialism, and U.S. Political Behavior -- 21 Religion and Politics in Postcommunist Russia.

Bull, M. J.: Introduction: religion and politics - American and European experiences and contrasts. - S. 270-272 Madeley, J. T. S.: Unequally yoked: the antinomies of curch-state separation in Europe and the USA. - S. 273-288 Klausen, J.: Why religion has become more salient in Europe: four working hypotheses about secularization and religiosity in contemporary politics. - S. 289-300 Laurence, J.: The corporatist antecedent of contemporary state-Islam relations. - S. 301-315 Green, J. C.: American faith-based politics in the era of George W. Bush. - S. 316-329