What's God Got to Do with the American Experiment? by E. J. D... - 9780815718697

What's God Got to Do with the American Experiment?Author(s): E. J. Dionne, John J. DiIulio\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Brookings Institution\nISBN-13: 9780815718697, 978-0815718697\nSynopsis\nMore than two hundred years have passed since the Constitution was written, yet Americans still cannot make up their minds whether religion is primarily private, public, or a combination of the two. This collection of essays explores the unsettled?and often unsettling?question of organized religion's role in contemporary public life. Richard N. Ostling reviews religious belief and practice in the United States in a survey of the ever-changing religious landscape, while Robert J. Blendon and others compare the political, moral, and religious values of the 1960s with those of the 1990s. Patrick Glynn and Alan Wolfe examine different religious responses to the recent presidential scandal, and James Q. Wilson, John J. DiIulio Jr., and Ram Cnaan e.