God and Country: America in Red and Blue

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Part I What is a Paradigm, and Why Does It Matter? 1 Habits of theMind—Thinking in Red and Blue 1 2 America’s Religious Roots 21 3 A New Paradigm 37 Part II The Democratic Dialectic 4 Conflict and Change 57 5 The Culture War Considered 83 Part III Paradigm and Policy: Now You See It, Now You Don’t 6 The Usual Suspects 105 7 Religion, Wealth, and Poverty 125 v 8 Religion, Science, and the Environment 147 9 Sin and Crime 163 10 God and Country, Us and Them 181 Part IV Living Together 11 Living Together 209 Bibliography 233 Index 247 vi / Contents ...