Faith, Morality, and Civil Society

Dale McConkey is Associate Professor of Sociology at Berry College. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Christian Sociologist, and the coeditor, with Peter Augustine Lawler, of Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today (Lexington Books, 2001), Social Structures, Social Capital, and Personal Freedom (2000), and Community and Political Thought Today (1998). Peter Augustine Lawler is Professor of Government at Berry College.

• Part 1 IntroductionChapter 2 The Potential for Pluralism: Religious Responses to the Triumph of Theory and Method in American AcademiaChapter 3 Neo-Calvinist Social Thought and Civic EducationChapter 4 The Principle of Subsidiarity and the Agrarian IdealChapter 5 The Varieties of Democratic ExperienceChapter 6 The Changing Landscape of Religion and Politics in America: The 2000 Presidential ElectionsChapter 7 Holy Books, Not Pocketbooks: Religious and Cultural Influences on the 2000 Presidential ElectionChapter 8 Religious Civility, Civil Society, and Charitable Choice: Faith-Based Poverty Relief in the Post-Welfare EraChapter 9 Speech, Not Religion: The Dilemma of Religious Conservatives in the Public SquareChapter 10 Faith, Tolerance, and Civil SocietyChapter 11 Aliens and Citizens: Competing Models of Political Involvement in Contemporary Christian Social EthicsChapter 12 Inverted MoralityChapter 13 From Virtues to Values: Some Opening Thoughts

In its methodological diversity, its wide range of concerns, and its attention to the dynamics of American religion and pluralism, this volume will contribute to the ongoing attempt-academically and, one hopes, practically-of navigating "our" way into the American 21st century.