The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in AmericaOxford University Press, 7. dets 2007 - 256 pages This volume offers a timely and dynamic study of the rise of religion in American politics, examining the public messages of political leaders over the past seventy-five years. The authors show that U.S. politics today is defined by a calculated, deliberate, and partisan use of faith that is unprecedented in modern politics. Beginning with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, America has seen a no-holds-barred religious politics that seeks to attract voters, identify and attack enemies, and solidify power. Domke and Coe identify a set of religious signals sent by both Republicans and Democrats in speeches, party platforms, proclamations, visits to audiences of faith, and even celebrations of Christmas. The updated edition of this ground-breaking book includes a new preface, an updated analysis of the last Bush administration, as well as a new final chapter on the Jeremiah Wright controversy, the candidacies of Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin, and Barack Obama's victory. |
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... Republican Party in fusing God and country. The partisan tilt to the right that characterized American politics from 1980 through 2004 is over, and we suggest that Democrats achieved this correction in significant part by observing what ...
... Republican Party in fusing God and country. The partisan tilt to the right that characterized American politics from 1980 through 2004 is over, and we suggest that Democrats achieved this correction in significant part by observing what ...
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... Republican Party's presidential nomination. Addressing a crowd of typically raucous delegates and a national television audience, Reagan was approaching the end of his speech when he departed from the prepared remarks his campaign had ...
... Republican Party's presidential nomination. Addressing a crowd of typically raucous delegates and a national television audience, Reagan was approaching the end of his speech when he departed from the prepared remarks his campaign had ...
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... Republican Party finally anointed Ronald Reagan as its Presidential nominee last week and sent him forth on what he called a 'crusade' to save America from its recent past.” In a similar vein, Washington Post media critic Tom Shales ...
... Republican Party finally anointed Ronald Reagan as its Presidential nominee last week and sent him forth on what he called a 'crusade' to save America from its recent past.” In a similar vein, Washington Post media critic Tom Shales ...
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... Republican president George H. W. Bush. Clinton selected Al Gore as his ... Party's national convention at New York's Madison Square Garden struck a ... Republicans' book, fundamentalist preacher Jerry Falwell charged Clinton with ...
... Republican president George H. W. Bush. Clinton selected Al Gore as his ... Party's national convention at New York's Madison Square Garden struck a ... Republicans' book, fundamentalist preacher Jerry Falwell charged Clinton with ...
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... Republican Party, though Democrats have now followed suit—utilized and refined this model to accrue political capital and transform the role of religion in American politics. Few used this approach more adeptly than George W. Bush ...
... Republican Party, though Democrats have now followed suit—utilized and refined this model to accrue political capital and transform the role of religion in American politics. Few used this approach more adeptly than George W. Bush ...
Contents
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Political Priests | 29 |
God and Country | 49 |
Acts of Communion | 71 |
Morality Politics | 99 |
Religious Politics and Democratic Vitality | 129 |
Act II | 151 |
Acknowledgments | 167 |
Notes | 169 |
Index | 237 |
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The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America David Domke,Kevin Coe Limited preview - 2008 |
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