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Article: Christianity and American Democracy/Religious Freedom and the Constitution
- Article from:
- Anglican and Episcopal History
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Historical Society of the Episcopal Church Jun 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Christianity and American Democracy. By Hugh Heclo. The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007, Pp. ix, 299. $25.95.)
Religious Freedom and the Constitution. By Christopher L. Eisgruber and Lawrence G. Sager. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007, Pp. 333. $28.95.)
Though Christians made their self-conscious return to American politics over four decades ago, they increasingly provide fodder for scholarship and commentary. Some of this has come from "insiders," faithful scholars such as Mark Noll or Richard John Neuhaus who follow in the tradition of Jacques Maritain or Reinhold and Richard Niebuhr. ...