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The presidency of George W. Bush has polarized the church-state debate as never before. The Far Right has been emboldened to use religion to govern, while the Far Left has redoubled its efforts to evict religion from public life entirely. Fewer people on the Right seem to respect the church-state separation, and fewer people on the Left seem to respect religion itself--still less its free exercise in any situation that is not absolutely private. In The Last Freedom, Joseph Viteritti argues that there is a basic tension between religion and democracy because religion often rejects compromise as a matter of principle while democracy requires compromise to thrive. In this readable, original, and provocative book, Viteritti argues that Americans must guard against debasing politics with either antireligious bigotry or religious zealotry. Drawing on politics, history, and law, he defines a new approach to the church-state question that protects the religious and the secular alike. Challenging much conventional opinion, Viteritti argues that the courts have failed to adequately protect religious minorities, that the rights of the religious are under greater threat than those of the secular, and that democracy exacts greater compromises and sacrifices from the religious than it does from the secular. He takes up a wide range of controversies, including the pledge of allegiance, school prayer, school vouchers, evolution, abortion, stem-cell research, gay marriage, and religious displays on public property. A fresh and surprising approach to the church-state question, The Last Freedom is squarely aimed at the wide center of the public that is frustrated with the extremes of both the Left and the Right.

Church and state --- School choice --- #SBIB:316.331H330 --- #SBIB:316.331H382 --- #SBIB:328H31 --- Godsdienst en politiek: algemeen --- Geografische spreiding van de godsdiensten: Amerika --- Instellingen en beleid: VSA / USA

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A massive religious transformation has unfolded over the past forty years in Latin America and the Caribbean. In a region where the Catholic Church could once claim a near monopoly of adherents, religious pluralism has fundamentally altered the social and religious landscape. Conversion of a Continent brings together twelve original essays that document and explore competing explanations for how and why conversion has occurred. Contributors draw on various insights from social movement theory to religious studies to help outline its impact on national attitudes and activities, gender relations, identity politics, and reverse waves of missions from Latin America aimed at the American immigrant community. Unlike other studies on religious conversion, this volume pays close attention to who converts, under what circumstances, the meaning of conversion to the individual, and how the change affects converts' beliefs and actions. The thematic focus makes this volume important to students and scholars in both religious studies and Latin American studies.

Conversion --- #SBIB:316.331H382 --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A74 --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- Geografische spreiding van de godsdiensten: Amerika --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Latin America --- Religion. --- Conversion.

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Smidt assesses the contemporary social, religious, and political characteristics of evangelical Protestants today. He analyzes the extent to which evangelicals are divided today, and does so within the framework of four potential factors that might shape such divisions: racial/ethnic differences, generational differences, educational differences, and religious differences. Addressing how evangelicals have changed over time, Smidt looks toward the future, addressing generational differences and other possible factors for change among evangelical Protestants.

Evangelistic work --- Evangelicalism --- #SBIB:316.331H382 --- #SBIB:316.331H410 --- Evangelical religion --- Protestantism, Evangelical --- Evangelical Revival --- Fundamentalism --- Pietism --- Protestantism --- History --- Geografische spreiding van de godsdiensten: Amerika --- Morfologie van de godsdiensten: Westerse kerken en denominaties --- Evangelicals in contemporary American society --- the Evangelical tradition in American religious life --- the size and social characteristics of Evangelicals --- the theological bliefs and religious behavior of Evangelicals --- Jesus --- the social theology of Evangelicals --- the civic life of Evangelicals --- Zion --- the politics of Evangelicals --- Evangelism.