Preliminary Material / William Reynolds and Julie A. Webber -- The Age of Ressentiment / William Reynolds and Julie A. Webber -- Christocrats and the Civic Gospel / William Reynolds and Julie A. Webber -- The Secular Strategies of the Christian Right / William Reynolds and Julie A. Webber -- Humanism and the American Political Imaginary / William Reynolds and Julie A. Webber -- The Land of a Thousand Churches / William Reynolds and Julie A. Webber -- The Stories We Tell Ourselves / William Reynolds and Julie A. Webber -- Notes / William Reynolds and Julie A. Webber -- Bibliography / William Reynolds and Julie A. Webber.

This book is a result of the times in which we are living. These times demand a response. When the authors began to write this book, it was not popular to dissent against the Bush administration. In fact, dissent was and still is equated with terrorism. Now, it might seem that the tide is turning and maybe after the 2008 election some of this nightmare we have been experiencing will change. At least that is the optimistic view. But there are small traces that the struggle the authors discuss in this book will continue well into the 21st century. The intermingling of the political and the religious is still swirling in the present context. The Civic Gospel, as the authors discuss it, is the notion that preaching the Gospel is preaching politics and vise versa. This book is about that struggle and the issues related to it.

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