American Catholics and Civic Engagement (eBook)
320 Seiten
Sheed & Ward (Verlag)
978-1-4616-7462-7 (ISBN)
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with the Commonweal Foundation and with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding the contributions to U.S. civic life of the Catholic, Jewish, mainline and evangelical Protestant, African-American, Latino, and Muslim communities in the United States, the two volumes in this series gather selected essays from the Commonweal Colloquia and the joint meetings organized by the Commonweal Foundation and The Faith and Reason Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington. Participants in the Commonweal colloquia and the joint meetings-leading Catholic scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, novelists and poets, church administrators and lobbyists, activists, policy makers and politicians-produced approximately forty-five essays presented at ten meetings that brought together over two hundred and fifty participants. The two volumes in the American Catholics in the Public Square Series address many of the most critical issues now facing the Catholic Church in the United States by drawing from the four goals of the colloquia-to identify, assess, and critique the distinctive elements in Catholicism's approach to civic life; to generate concrete analyses and recommendations for strengthening Catholic civic engagement; to encompass a broad spectrum of political and social views of Catholics to encourage dialogue between Catholic leaders, religious and secular media, and political thinkers; to reexamine the long-standing Catholic belief in the obligation to promote the common good and to clarify how Catholics may work better with those holding other religious or philosophical convictions toward revitalizing both the religious environment and civic participation in the American republic.This first volume, American Catholics and Civic Engagement: A Distinctive Voice, i
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels served as Commonweal's editor from 1988 to 2002 and as co-director of American Catholics in the Public Square project. Peter Steinfels writes the "Beliefs" column for the New York Times and is the author of A People Adrift: The Crisis of Roman Catholicism in America (2003).
Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Part 1: Catholic Thought in the American ContextChapter 3 The Common Good & Catholic Social ThoughtChapter 4 Pluralism & the Common Good: A ResponseChapter 5 Catholic Social Thought & the American ExperienceChapter 6 Contending with LiberalismChapter 7 Catholics and the Liberal TraditionPart 8 Part 2: Catholic Institutions in the American Public SquareChapter 9 The Catholic Parish in the Public SquareChapter 10 What do State Catholic Conferences Do?Chapter 11 The Limits of Coalitions and Compromises: The California State Catholic ConferenceChapter 12 Catholic Health Care & the Challenge of Civic SocietyPart 13 Part 3: Catholics in the Public Square: AutobiographiesChapter 14 Pro-life, Pro-family, Pro-poorChapter 15 State House PoliticianChapter 16 On the Beat in the South Bronx and Central AmericaChapter 17 Politics and PollingChapter 18 A Journalist's CallingChapter 19 Look for the Real StoryChapter 20 Family, Faith and UnionChapter 21 The Workers' WorkerChapter 22 Family, Good Fortune and StewardshipChapter 23 God Deals with Me Through My ClientsPart 24 Part 4: Catholics in the Voting BoothChapter 25 How Catholic is the Catholic Vote?Chapter 26 There Is No Catholic Vote-And It's ImportantChapter 27 Catholic RepublicansChapter 28 Communitarian Lite
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.10.2003 |
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Reihe/Serie | American Catholics in the Public Square |
Co-Autor | E.J. Dionne, Edward E. Dolejsi, Thomas J. Donnelly, William A. Galston, David Gonzalez, Michael Lacey, David C. Leege, Dotty Lynch, Jane Mansbridge, Paul Moses, Paul D. Mueller, Monsignor Philip J. Murnion, Kate O'Beirne, Stephen J. Pope, William M. Shea, John J. Sweeney, Don Wycliff, W Shepherdson Abell, Kirk Adams, Mary Jo Bane, William Bole, David Carlin, Clarke E. Cochran, John A. Coleman |
Vorwort | Peter Steinfels |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik |
Naturwissenschaften | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4616-7462-X / 146167462X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4616-7462-7 / 9781461674627 |
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