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Religion and Politics in America: A Conversation
Author(s): Michael Cromartie (Editor), David Brooks (Contributor), Stephen Carter (Contributor), John DiIulio (Contributor), Jean Bethke Elshtain (Contributor), John C. Green (Contributor), Nathan Hatch (Contributor), Charles Krauthammer (Contributor), William McGurn (Contributor), Leo Ribuffo (Contributor), Jeffrey Rosen (Contributor), Hanna Rosin (Contributor), David Shribman (Contributor), Grant Wacker (Contributor), George Weigel (Contributor), Jack Wertheimer (Contributor), Kenneth L. Woodward (Contributor)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication Date: March 31, 2005
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742544702
- ISBN-13: 9780742544703
Book Description
Put differently, these news events reflect subtle theological nuances and deep faith commitments that shape the activities of religious believers in the public square. Inasmuch as a faith tradition is an active or significant participant in the public arena, journalists will need to better understand the theological sources and religious convictions that motivate this political activity.
The current national discourse has brought faith and its relationship to public policy to the forefront of our daily news. Since 1999, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, through the generosity of the Pew Charitable Trusts, has hosted six conferences for
national journalists to help raise the level of their reporting by increasing their understanding of religion, religious communities, and the religious convictions that inform the political activity of devout believers. This book contains the presentations and
conversations that grew out of those conferences.
