The Culture of Disbelief

How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion

By: Stephen L. Carter

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Paperback | 1 September 1994

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"The Culture Of Disbelief" has been the subject of an enormous amount of media attention from the first moment it was published. Hugely successful in hardcover, the Anchor paperback is sure to find a large audience as the ever-increasing, enduring debate about the relationship of church and state in America continues. In "The Culture Of Disbelief," Stephen Carter explains how we can preserve the vital separation of church and state while embracing rather than trivializing the faith of millions of citizens or treating religious believers with disdain. What makes Carter's work so intriguing is that he uses liberal means to arrive at what are often considered conservative ends. Explaining how preserving a special role for religious communities can strengthen our democracy, "The Culture Of Disbelief" recovers the long tradition of liberal religious witness (for example, the antislavery, antisegregation, and Vietnam-era antiwar movements). Carter argues that the problem with the 1992 Republican convention was not the "fact" of open religious advocacy, but the "political positions" being advocated.

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"Rational argument rarely seems as warm, as human, as it does in this book...Carter leads the reader to contemplate the embattled constitutional wall between the state and religion, and he does so without furor, without dogma, with only the qualities he envisions in the ideal public square: moderation, restraint, respect." -- The New Yorker.

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Acknowledgments
The Separation of Faith and Self
The Culture of Disbelief	p. 3
God as a Hobby	p. 23
From Civil Religion to Civil Exclusion	p. 44
Political Preaching	p. 67
The "Christian Nation" and Other Horrors	p. 83
The First Subject of the First Amendment
The Separation of Church and State	p. 105
The Accommodation of Religion	p. 124
Religious Autonomy in the Welfare State	p. 136
In the Beginning	p. 156
God: A Course of Study	p. 183
The Clothed Public Square
(Dis)Believing in Faith	p. 213
Matters of Life and Death	p. 233
Religious Fascism	p. 263
Postscript	p. 275
Notes	p. 279
Index	p. 319
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