In this Book
- Religion and the Politics of Tolerance: How Christianity Builds Democracy
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Baylor University Press
summary
Challenging a widespread belief that religious people are politically intolerant, Marie Ann Eisenstein offers compelling evidence to the contrary. In this surprising and significant book, she thoroughly re-examines previous studies and presents new research to support her argument that there is, in fact, a positive correlation between religious belief and practice and political tolerance in the United States. Eisenstein utilizes sophisticated new analytical tools to re-evaluate earlier data and offers persuasive new statistical evidence to support her claim that religiousness and political tolerance do, indeed, mix—and that religiosity is not the threat to liberal democracy that it is often made out to be.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- p. vii
- List of Tables and Figures
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- p. xi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- Chapter 1: The Politics of Tolerance
- pp. 13-31
- References
- pp. 165-172
- Index [Includes Back Cover]
- pp. 173-176
Additional Information
ISBN
9781602581685
Related ISBN(s)
9781435632318, 9781481301367, 9781932792843
MARC Record
OCLC
212927796
Pages
195
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No