David E. Campbell

Seeking the Promised Land (eBook, ePUB)

Mormons and American Politics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mormons have long had an outsized presence in American culture and politics, but they remain largely unknown to most Americans. Recent years have seen the political prominence of Mormons taken to a new level - including the presidential candidacy of Republican Mitt Romney, the prominent involvement of Mormons in the campaign for California's Proposition 8 (anti-gay marriage), and the ascendancy of Democrat Harry Reid to the position of Senate Majority Leader. This book provides the most thorough examination ever written of Mormons' place in the American political landscape - what Mormons are like politically and how non-Mormons respond to Mormon candidates. However, this is a book about more than Mormons. As a religious subculture in a pluralistic society, Mormons are a case study of how a religious group balances distinctiveness and assimilation - a question faced by all faiths.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139985338
• Artikelnr.: 41329563

Autorenporträt

David E. Campbell is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and the founding director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy. He is the coauthor (with Robert Putnam) of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, which received both the 2011 Woodrow Wilson Award from the American Political Science Association and the Wilbur Award from the Religious Communicators Council for the best nonfiction book of 2010. He is also the author of Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape our Civic Life.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Mormons as an Ethno-Religious Group: 1. Meet the Mormons
2. The sacred tabernacle: Mormons as an ethno-religious group
3. A peculiar people? Mormon religious distinctiveness
Part II. Political Behavior of Mormons: 4. Mormon political views: cohesive, republican, and conservative
5. A politically peculiar people
6. Following the leader: Mormons' responsiveness to church leaders
Part III. The Consequences of Distinctiveness: 7. Assessing the saints: how Americans view Mormons
8. A stained glass ceiling? Mormon candidates and presidential campaigns
9. How Mormonism affected Mitt, how Mitt has affected Mormonism
10. Conclusion: seeking the promised land.