Religion and the Politics of Tolerance: How Christianity Builds Democracy
Marie Eisenstein
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.
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Year:
2008
Publisher:
Baylor University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
190
ISBN 10:
1932792848
ISBN 13:
9781932792843
File:
PDF, 2.23 MB
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english, 2008