Religion and the Politics of Tolerance: How Christianity Builds Democracy

ISBN-13: 9781932792843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 195 str.

Marie Ann Eisenstein

Opis

Challenging a widespread belief that religious people are politically intolerant, Marie Ann Eisenstein offers compelling evidence to the contrary. In this surprising and significant book, she thoroughly re-examines previous studies and presents new research to support her argument that there is, in fact, a positive correlation between religious belief and practice and political tolerance in the United States. Eisenstein utilizes sophisticated new analytical tools to re-evaluate earlier data and offers persuasive new statistical evidence to support her claim that religiousness and political tolerance do, indeed, mix and that religiosity is not the threat to liberal democracy that it is often made out to be."