- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Religion and Politics in America from the First Settlements to the Civil War
- 2 Religion and Ideological Change in the American Revolution
- 3 Rhetoric and Reality in the Early Republic: The Case of the Federalist Clergy
- 4 Religion, Government, and Power in the New American Nation
- 5 The Democratization of Christianity and the Character of American Politics
- 6 Religion and Politics in the Antebellum North
- 7 Ethnoreligious Political Behavior in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Voting, Values, Cultures
- 8 Methodists, Politics, and the Coming of the American Civil War
- 9 Slavery, Race, and Political Ideology in the White Christian South Before and After the Civil War
- 10 Protestant Theological Tensions and Political Styles in the Progressive Period
- 11 Roman Catholics and American Politics, 1900–1960: Altered Circumstances, Continuing Patterns
- 12 Faith Transformed: Religion and American Politics from FDR to George W. Bush
- 13 Evangelicalism Becomes Southern, Politics Becomes Evangelical: From FDR to Ronald Reagan
- 14 Viewed in Black and White: Conservative Protestantism, Racial Issues, and Oppositional Politics
- 15 Roman Catholics and American Politics, 1960–2004
- 16 Women, Politics, and Religion
- 17 Contemporary Views from Abroad
- 18 Canadian Counterpoint
- 19 Quid Obscurum: The Changing Terrain of Church-State Relations
- 20 Religion, Politics, and the Search for an American Consensus
- Index
Quid Obscurum: The Changing Terrain of Church-State Relations
Quid Obscurum: The Changing Terrain of Church-State Relations
- Chapter:
- (p.441) 19 Quid Obscurum: The Changing Terrain of Church-State Relations
- Source:
- Religion and American Politics
- Author(s):
Robert Wuthnow
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter presents a far-ranging general account of religion and politics since World War II. It explores the hidden chasm stretching across the contemporary religious landscape, a chasm not between denominations but between more basic attitudes concerning the place of religion in both private and public life. The discussion describes the development of the new divide with respect to religious divisions, but also with respect to fundamental recent changes in American society and political expectations.
Keywords: World War II, religious divisions, American society, Christianity, Holocaust
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Religion and Politics in America from the First Settlements to the Civil War
- 2 Religion and Ideological Change in the American Revolution
- 3 Rhetoric and Reality in the Early Republic: The Case of the Federalist Clergy
- 4 Religion, Government, and Power in the New American Nation
- 5 The Democratization of Christianity and the Character of American Politics
- 6 Religion and Politics in the Antebellum North
- 7 Ethnoreligious Political Behavior in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Voting, Values, Cultures
- 8 Methodists, Politics, and the Coming of the American Civil War
- 9 Slavery, Race, and Political Ideology in the White Christian South Before and After the Civil War
- 10 Protestant Theological Tensions and Political Styles in the Progressive Period
- 11 Roman Catholics and American Politics, 1900–1960: Altered Circumstances, Continuing Patterns
- 12 Faith Transformed: Religion and American Politics from FDR to George W. Bush
- 13 Evangelicalism Becomes Southern, Politics Becomes Evangelical: From FDR to Ronald Reagan
- 14 Viewed in Black and White: Conservative Protestantism, Racial Issues, and Oppositional Politics
- 15 Roman Catholics and American Politics, 1960–2004
- 16 Women, Politics, and Religion
- 17 Contemporary Views from Abroad
- 18 Canadian Counterpoint
- 19 Quid Obscurum: The Changing Terrain of Church-State Relations
- 20 Religion, Politics, and the Search for an American Consensus
- Index
