The fracture of good order : Christian antiliberalism and the challenge to American politics / Jason C. Bivins.

Whether picketing outside abortion clinics, speaking out at school board meetings, or attending anti-death penalty vigils, many Americans have publicly opposed local, state, or federal government policies on the basis of their religious convictions. In this book, Jason Bivins examines the growing ph...

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Main Author: Bivins, Jason
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: "Watch!": The Meanings of Christian Antiliberalism
  • Notes
  • 1. The Irony of the Liberal State
  • Traditions of Dissent
  • The Sixties and Their Aftermath
  • Theory as Usual?
  • Notes
  • 2. Christianity Faithfully Lived Is Politics Enough: Prophetic Politics in the Sojourners Community
  • Roots and Relations
  • Inner-City Koinonia
  • Establishing Judgment in the Gate: Prophetic Theology
  • A Local Geography of Christ's Passion
  • Call to Renewal
  • A Very Unexpected Place: Meanings and Interpretations
  • Notes.
  • 3. The Rootedness of Discontent: Culture and Identity in the New Christian Right
  • An Antiliberal History
  • Keeping Safe from the Liberal State
  • Educrats of Sexology
  • Drawing the Line
  • The Sacred Registers of Education
  • Notes
  • 4. The Fracture of Good Order: The Berrigans and Ritual Protest
  • Blood and the Signs of Contradiction
  • "No Man of State Has Seen His Own Heart": The Berrigans and Caesar
  • "Pissing on the Dynamite": Ritual Protest and Sacramental Politics
  • "It's Impolite Not to Tell the Judge He's Terrible": The Berrigans in Court.
  • In the Belly of the Whale: Jonah House and Community
  • Notes
  • 5. Joy Cometh with the Morning: Democracy, Power, and Christian Antiliberalism
  • The Shapes of American Religion
  • A Refuge from Liberalism
  • Power, Religion, and Democracy
  • The Stubborn Quality of Truth and Experience
  • Notes
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A-C
  • D-F
  • G-L
  • M-N
  • O-S
  • T-Z.