Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-0-7006-3049-3
Verlag: University Press of Kansas
Kennedy lived up to the pledge he made to the country in Houston in 1960 with a genuine commitment to the separation of church and state with his stance on aid to education, his willingness to reverse course with the Peace Corps and the Agency for International Development, and his outreach to Protestant and Jewish clergy. The remarks he offered at the National Prayer Breakfast and in countless other settings had the cumulative effect of diminishing long-standing anxieties about Catholic power. In his own way, Kennedy demanded of Protestants that they live up to their own much-vaunted commitment to church-state separation. This principle could not mean one thing for Catholics and something entirely different for other people of faith. American Protestants could not consistently oppose public funding for religious schools-because those schools were overwhelmingly Catholic-while defending religious exercises in public schools.
Lacroix reveals how close the country came, during the Kennedy administration, to a satisfactory solution to the fundamental religious challenge of the postwar years-the public accommodation of pluralism-as Kennedy came to embrace a nascent 'religious left' that supported his civil rights bill and the nuclear test ban treaty.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Führung