[Rezension von: Fowler, Robert Booth, 1940-, Religion and politics in America]
Both of these books are introductory college textbooks on the subject of religion and politics in the United States, and both are excellent. Both take a serious social science approach to religion; the scholarship of both is beyond reproach; both new editions incorporate and reflect recent research...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2015, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 386-388 |
| Review of: | Religion and politics in America (Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press, 2014) (Evans, Bette Novit)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Politics
/ USA
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| RelBib Classification: | KBQ North America ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | Both of these books are introductory college textbooks on the subject of religion and politics in the United States, and both are excellent. Both take a serious social science approach to religion; the scholarship of both is beyond reproach; both new editions incorporate and reflect recent research and emerging trends; both are well written; both cover the major topics and use tables and illustrations well; and either could be successfully used in the classroom. The Wald and Calhoun-Brown (hereafter Wald) textbook is a little longer and provides an extensive bibliography; it is also more than twice as expensive. The books cover many of the same topics—the major Christian traditions, non-Christian religions in America, church–state separation, gender issues, religion and voting, religious interest... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csv016 |