Faith and Public Policy
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Description
Fourteen essays, presented by Wilburn (public policy, Pepperdine U.), offer arguments for eroding the separation between religion and public policy in contemporary American life. Preliminary essays argue that the United States was founded as a religious nation and that it's success is due to that religious founding. Other essays blame a number of social and individual ills on a perceived lack of religion, failing to explain why many less religious countries don't have these ills on the same scale. Further contributions offer arguments for bringing religious institutions into schooling, social welfare, and tax policy (this last relying heavily on the arguments of Charles Murray, the author of The Bell Curve). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
ISBN
0739103857, 9780739103852, 0739103865, 9780739103869
Publication Date
2002
Publisher
Lexington Books
City
Lanham
Keywords
Christianity, United States, Conference papers, Politics, United States
Disciplines
Political Science | Religion
Recommended Citation
Wilburn, James R., "Faith and Public Policy" (2002). Faculty Books. 127.
https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/facultybooks/127