RT Review
T1 The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right
JF A journal of church and state
VO 51
IS 4
SP 719
OP 721
A1 Kosek, Joseph Kip
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783934697
AB In The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right, Jon Shields provocatively argues that conservative Christians have “helped create a more participatory democracy” (p. 1) and “labored to inculcate deliberative norms in their rank-and-file activists” (p. 2). He forcefully objects to popular and scholarly depictions of these activists as anti-liberal, irrational, or quasi-fascist. The book's sophisticated argument makes it essential reading for scholars of American religion, politics, and social movements, but it is accessible enough to interest nonspecialists as well., Political scientists, Shields explains, have too seldom engaged the subject of religion.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jcs/csq013