Active Faith by Ralph Reed (1996) - eBay (item 120488059896 end time Nov-09-09 04:40:40 PST)


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Author:	Ralph Reed	Publisher:	Free Pr
ISBN-10:	0684827581	Subject:	Law & Government
ISBN-13:	9780684827582	Topic:	--
Format:	Hardcover	Language:	English
Publication Year:	1996	Condition:	Acceptable
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Synopsis
A new edition, revised in light of the 1996 presidential election, of Reed's examination of the relations between politics and religion in the United States.
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Length:	311 pages
Height:	10.0 in.
Width:	6.8 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	21.6 oz.

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In controversial and uncompromising terms, the most visible leader of the Christian Right explains its meteoric rise and forcefully articulates its agenda for transforming the nation. Ralph Reed, Executive Director of the Christian Coalition, is responsible for wedding high technology with cutting-edge political organization to engineer the most efficient and effective projection of religion into the nation's political life in modern times. In Active Faith, Reed articulates a new "theology" of political activism for devout Christians and calls upon all Americans, both religious and secular, to heal our ailing body politic. With a historian's practiced eye, Reed recounts the long tale of religious involvement in American life, showing that despite the popular belief, devout Christians and religious rhetoric have been the driving force behind nearly every major social reform movement in America, whether of the right or of the left. From abolition to the New Deal, from the labor movement to civil rights, Christian believers have been instrumental to the expansion of social justice in the United States. Reed paints compelling portraits of the most famous religious reformers of the past, including William Jennings Bryan, Walter Rauschenbusch, and Martin Luther King, Jr., men whose ideas and ideals exerted a broad positive influence on the secular politics of their day. By contrast, the involvement of Christian conservatives in politics today prompts puzzlement, anger, and condescension from the media and establishment politicians. Reed explains why this is so, blaming a knee-jerk secularism that has infected many of our institutions and that makes American elites suspect any public pronouncements of religious faith, Christian or otherwise. Reed gives a detailed account of how the Christian Coalition overcame media hostility, cultural stereotypes, and the missteps of theold religious right to become a respected and permanent fixture in American politics. Today, by uniting with Catholics and observant Jews, as well as reaching out to African-Americans, it stands poised to capture majority status on hundreds of local school boards, in city councils, in state legislatures, and in the U.S. Congress itself.
Industry reviews
"Unlike other writers producing political treatises, Reed is delivering the goods: He's telling you where he wants to take this movement....'Active Faith'...is the product of an evolving political warrior, a manifesto for a movement that is often feared but rarely underestimated." Philadelphia Inquirer - Steve Goldstein (06/09/1996) "Unless he has a rare ability to sustain a false presentation convincingly through an entire book, however, 'Active Faith' suggests that he ought to be taken at his word when he says that he is a mainstream figure....Reed's objective in 'Active Faith' is to be comforting, by showing how moderate his positions are, how willing to compromise he is. In fact, his book is alarming, since it demonstrates that in his mind there is no bright-line difference between church-based groups seeking political redress of grievances and the operating of the government along religious lines." New Republic - Nicholas Lemann (07/08/1996) "It is the work of neither a thinker nor a zealot but of a media-adept child of the video age." Washington Post Book World - Andrew Delbanco (07/07/1996) "The book is a long and gripping political yarn, not a religious dissertation. The been-there, done-that flavor of the writing is compelling and authentic. It's Reed's story as much as it is a movement's story." Christian Science Monitor - David Mutch (08/19/1996)

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