November 23, 2007

The Religious Right: Pro/Con/Neutral

 

WHAT ARE THEY SAYING ABOUT THE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS RIGHT?

Books & Readers 2001 - 2007


There are signs that the American religious right is mellowing, and since the rapid pace of publishing on this topic has declined, this ongoing bibliography which has been appearing in the sidebar of this blog is now closed.  The following is the complete list of books that was compiled, with links to Amazon citations with editorial and customer reviews.

  1. AMERICAN FASCISTS: THE RISE OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT by Chris Hedges (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
  2. AMERICAN GOSPEL: GOD, THE FOUNDING FATHERS, AND THE MAKING OF A NATION by Jon Meacham (Random House, 2006)
  3. AMERICAN RELIGIOUS DEMOCRACY: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE END OF SECULAR POLITICS by Bruce Ledewitz (Praeger, 2007)
  4. AMERICAN THEOCRACY: THE PERIL AND POLITICS OF RADICAL RELIGION, OIL AND BORROWED MONEY IN THE 21ST CENTURY by Kevin Phillips (Viking, 2006)
  5. A SECULAR FAITH: WHY CHRISTIANITY FAVORS THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, by D. G. Hart (Ivan R. Dee, 2006)
  6. BARE NAKED TRUTH: ON THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT by Stacey Tallitsch (AuthorHouse, 2005)
  7. BELIEVERS: A JOURNEY INTO EVANGELICAL AMERICA by Jeffery Sheler (Viking, 2006)
  8. BIG CHRISTIANITY: WHAT'S RIGHT WITH THE RELIGIOUS LEFT by Jan G Linn (Westminster John Knox Press, 2006)
  9. BLASPHEMY: HOW THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT IS HIJACKING OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, by Alan Dershowitz (John Wiley, 2007)
  10. BORN AGAIN: THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT GLOBALIZED by Jennifer Butler (Pluto Press, 2006)
  11. BUSH'S FRINGE GOVERNMENT by Garry Wills (New York Review Books, 2006)
  12. CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE: KIDS, POLITICS, AND AMERICA'S FUTURE by Lawrence Grossberg (Paradigm, 2005)
  13. CHRISTIAN AMERICA? WHAT EVANGELICALS REALLY WANT by Christian Smith (University of California Press, 2002)
  14. CHRISTIAN CLERGY IN AMERICAN POLITICS by Laura Olson (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)
  15. CONFESSIONS OF A FORMER DITTOHEAD, by Jim Derych (Ig Publishing, 2006)
  16. CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: A REFERENCE HANDBOOK, edited by James True, et al. (ABC-CLIO, 2004)
  17. CONSERVATIVES WITHOUT CONSCIENCE by John Dean (Viking, 2006)
  18. CONTEMPT: HOW THE RIGHT IS WRONGING AMERICAN JUSTICE by Catherine Crier (Rugged Land, 2005)
  19. DEMOCRACY UNDER ASSAULT: THEOPOLITICS, INCIVILITY AND VIOLENCE ON THE RIGHT by Michele Swenson (IUniverse, 2004)
  20. DOES AMERICAN DEMOCRACY STILL WORK? by Alan Wolfe (Yale University Press, 2006)
  21. DON'T THINK OF AN ELEPHANT!: KNOW YOUR VALUES AND FRAME THE DEBATE: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE FOR PROGRESSIVES by George Lakoff (Chelsea Green, 2004)
  22. FAITH AND POLITICS: HOW THE "MORAL VALUES" DEBATE DIVIDES AMERICA AND HOW TO MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER by Senator John Danforth (Viking, 2006)
  23. FASCISTS IN CHRISTIAN CLOTHING: THE VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY by Richard Weisman (iUniverse, 2005)
  24. FIGHTING WORDS: A TOOLKIT FOR COMBATING THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT by Robin Morgan (Nation Books, 2006)
  25. FIXING AMERICA: BREAKING THE STRANGEHOLD OF CORPORATE RULE, BIG MEDIA AND THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT by John Buchanan, et al. (Trine Day, 2005)
  26. FOR A CHRISTIAN AMERICA: A HISTORY OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT by Ruth Murray Brown (Prometheus Books, 2002)
  27. FUNDAMENTALISTS AND EXTREMISTS, edited by Douglas Long (Facts on File, 2002)
  28. GETTING ON MESSAGE: CHALLENGING THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT FROM THE HEART OF THE GOSPEL by Peter Laarman, et al. (Beacon Press, 2006)
  29. GOD AND CAESAR IN AMERICA: AN ESSAY ON RELIGION AND POLITICS by Gary Hart (Fulcrum, 2005)
  30. GOD AND COUNTRY: HOW EVANGELICALS HAVE BECOME AMERICA'S NEW MAINSTREAM by Monique El-Faizy (Bloomsbury, 2006)
  31. GOD IN PUBLIC: FOUR WAYS AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE RELATE, by Mark Toulouse (Westminster John Knox Press, 2006)
  32. GOD'S NAME IN VAIN: THE WRONGS AND RIGHTS OF RELIGION IN POLITICS by Stephen L. Carter (Basic Books, 2001)
  33. GOD'S POLITICS: WHY THE RIGHT GETS IT WRONG AND THE LEFT DOESN'T GET IT by Jim Wallis (HarperSanFrancisco, 2005)
  34. HARDBALL ON HOLY GROUND: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT by Stephen Swecker (Boston Wesleyan Press, 2005)
  35. HEAD AND HEART: AMERICAN CHRISTIANITIES, by Garry Wills (Penguin, 2007)
  36. HIPPIES OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT: FROM THE COUNTERCULTURE OF JERRY GARCIA TO THE SUBCULTURE OF JERRY FALWELL, by Preston Shires (Baylor University Press, 2007)
  37. HOW DOES RELIGION INFLUENCE POLITICS? edited by James Torr (Greenhaven Press, 2006)
  38. HOW THE REPUBLICANS STOLE CHRISTMAS: WHY THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT IS WRONG ABOUT FAITH AND POLITICS AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO MAKE IT RIGHT by Bill Press (Doubleday, 2005)
  39. HOW THE REPUBLICANS STOLE RELIGION: WHY THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT IS WRONG ABOUT FAITH & POLITICS AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO MAKE IT RIGHT by Bill Press (Three Leaves, 2006)
  40. IN DEFENSE OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT: WHY CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS ARE THE LIFEBLOOD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND WHY THAT TERRIFIES THE DEMOCRATS by Patrick Hynes (Nelson, 2006)
  41. IN GOD WE TRUST? RELIGION AND AMERICAN POLITICAL LIFE by Corwin Smidt, et al. (Baker Academic, 2001)
  42. IS DEMOCRACY POSSIBLE HERE? PRINCIPLES FOR A NEW POLITICAL DEBATE, by Ronald Dworkin (Princeton University Press, 2006)
  43. JESUS IS NOT A REPUBLICAN: THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT'S WAR ON AMERICA by Clint Willis, et al. (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005)
  44. JESUS RODE A DONKEY: WHY REPUBLICANS DON'T HAVE THE CORNER ON CHRIST by Linda Seger (Adams, 2006)
  45. JESUS WAS A LIBERAL: HOW THE CONSERVATIVE AGENDA IS A REJECTION OF CHRIST'S TEACHINGS, by Jerry Wilde (LGR Publishing, 2006)
  46. KINGDOM COMING: THE RISE OF CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM by Michelle Goldberg (W.W. Norton, 2006)
  47. LETTER TO A CHRISTIAN NATION by Sam Harris (Knopf, 2006)
  48. MIDDLE CHURCH: RECLAIMING THE MORAL VALUES OF THE FAITHFUL MAJORITY FROM THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT by Bob Edgar (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
  49. ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS: THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT IN AMERICAN POLITICS by Clyde Wilcox, et al. (Westview Press, 2006)
  50. OUR ENDANGERED VALUES: AMERICA'S MORAL CRISIS by Jimmy Carter (Simon & Schuster, 2005)
  51. PERFECT ENEMIES: THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT AND THE GAY MOVEMENT by John Gallagher and Chris Bull (Madison Books, 2001)
  52. PIETY AND POLITICS: THE RIGHT-WING ASSAULT ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM by Barry W Lynn (Harmony, 2006)
  53. POLITICAL AGENDAS FOR EDUCATION: FROM THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT TO THE GREEN PARTY by Joel H Spring (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005)
  54. RADICAL CONSERVATISM: THE RIGHT'S POLITICAL RELIGION by Robert Brent Toplin (University Press of Kansas, 2006)
  55. REAL PROPHECY UNVEILED: WHY THE CHRIST WILL NOT COME AGAIN, AND WHY THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT IS WRONG by Joseph James Adamson (Writers Club Press, 2002)
  56. RELIGION AND POLITICS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: THE ONE, THE FEW, AND THE MANY, by Ted G. Jelen, et al. (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
  57. RELIGION AND THE BUSH PRESIDENCY, by Mark J Rozell et al. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
  58. RELIGION GONE BAD: THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT by Mel White (Tarcher, 2006)
  59. RELIGION, POLITICS, AND AMERICAN IDENTITY: NEW DIRECTIONS, NEW CONTROVERSIES, by David S Gutterman et al. (Lexington Books, 2006)
  60. RELIGION, POLITICS, AND THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT: POST-9/11 POWERS AND AMERICAN EMPIRE by Mark Lewis Taylor (Augsburg Fortress, 2005)
  61. RELIGION RETURNS TO THE PUBLIC SQUARE: FAITH AND POLICY IN AMERICA by Wilfred M. McClay, et al. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)
  62. RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM AND POLITICAL EXTREMISM by Ami Pedahzur, et al. (Frank Cass, 2004)
  63. RENDER UNTO DARWIN: PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT'S CRUSADE AGAINST SCIENCE by James H Fetzer (Open Court, 2006)
  64. RIGHT WING, WRONG BIRD: WHY THE TACTICS OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT WON'T FLY WITH MOST CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS by Joel C Hunter (Distributed Church Press, 2006)
  65. SCHOOL BOARD BATTLES: THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IN LOCAL POLITICS by Melissa M Deckman (Georgetown University Press, 2004)
  66. SHAMELESS: SEXUAL DISSIDENCE IN AMERICAN CULTURE by Arlene Stein (New York University Press, 2006)
  67. SKIPPING TOWARDS ARMAGEDDON: THE POLITICS AND PROPAGANDA OF THE LEFT BEHIND NOVELS AND THE LAHAYE EMPIRE by Michael Standaert (Soft Skull Press, 2005)
  68. SO HELP ME GOD: THE INFLUENCE OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT ON THE CAMPAIGNING OF GEORGE W. BUSH, by Katrin Erdmann (Lit Verlag, 2007)
  69. STEEPLEJACKING: HOW THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IS HIJACKING MAINSTREAM RELIGION, by Sheldon Culver et al. (Ig Publishing, 2007)
  70. TAKE BACK THE RIGHT: HOW THE NEO-CONS AND THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT HAVE HIJACKED THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT by Philip Gold (Carroll & Graf, 2004)
  71. TAKE BACK THE TRUTH: CONFRONTING PAPAL POWER AND THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT by Joanna Manning (Crossroad, 2002)
  72. TEMPTING FAITH: AN INSIDE ACCOUNT OF POLITICAL SEDUCTION by David Kuo (Free Press, 2006)
  73. THE BAPTIZING OF AMERICA: THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT'S PLANS FOR THE REST OF US by James Rudin (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006)
  74. THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IN AMERICAN POLITICS: MARCHING TO THE MILLENNIUM by John C Green, et al. (Georgetown University Press, 2003)
  75. THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT-- OR WRONG?: EXPOSING THE CORRUPT TEACHINGS OF CORPORATE CHRISTIANITY AND ITS LEADING MEDIA EVANGELISTS by John Cord (Blue Dolphin, 2006)
  76. THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT, THE FAR RIGHT AND THE BOUNDARIES OF AMERICAN CONSERVATISM by Martin Durham (Manchester University Press, 2001)
  77. THE DECENCY WARS: THE CAMPAIGN TO CLEANSE AMERICAN CULTURE by Frederick S Lane (Prometheus Books, 2006)
  78. THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: EVANGELICALS, LIBERTARIANS AND THE BATTLE TO CONTROL THE REPUBLICAN PARTY by Ryan H Sager (Wiley, 2006)
  79. THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY: THE ALARMING CONVERGENCE OF MILITANT ISLAM AND THE EXTREME RIGHT, by George Michael (University Press of Kansas, 2006)
  80. THE FUNDAMENTALS OF EXTREMISM: THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IN AMERICA by Kimberly Blaker (New Boston Books, 2003)
  81. THE GODLESS CONSTITUTION: A MORAL DEFENSE OF THE SECULAR STATE, by Isaac Kramnick et al. (W. W. Norton, 2005)
  82. THE HIJACKING OF JESUS: HOW THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT DISTORTS CHRISTIANITY AND PROMOTES PREJUDICE AND HATE by Dan Wakefield (Nation Books, 2006)
  83. THE HOLY VOTE: THE POLITICS OF FAITH IN AMERICA by Ray Suarez (Rayo, 2006)
  84. THE JESUS MACHINE: HOW JAMES DOBSON, FOCUS ON THE FAMILY, AND EVANGELICAL AMERICA ARE WINNING THE CULTURE WAR, by Dan Gilgoff (St. Martin's Press, 2007)
  85. THE LAST CRUSADE: RELIGION AND THE POLITICS OF MISDIRECTION by Barbara Victor (Constable, 2005)
  86. THE LEFT HAND OF GOD: TAKING BACK OUR COUNTRY FROM THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT by Michael Lerner (HarperSanFrancisco, 2006)
  87. THE MIGHTY AND THE ALMIGHTY: REFLECTIONS ON AMERICA, GOD, AND WORLD AFFAIRS by Madeleine Albright (HarperCollins, 2006)
  88. THE MYTH OF A CHRISTIAN NATION: HOW THE QUEST FOR POLITICAL POWER IS DESTROYING THE CHURCH by Gregory A Boyd (Zondervan 2006)
  89. THE QUIET HAND OF GOD: FAITH-BASED ACTIVISM AND THE PUBLIC ROLE OF MAINLINE PROTESTANTISM by Robert Wuthnow, et al. (University of California Press, 2002)
  90. THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT: A REFERENCE HANDBOOK by Glenn H. Utter, et al. (MacKenzie and Harris, 2006)
  91. THE RHETORIC OF OPERATION RESCUE: PROJECTING THE CHRISTIAN PRO-LIFE MESSAGE by Mark Allan Steiner (T & T Clark, 2006)
  92. THE SINNER'S GUIDE TO THE EVANGELICAL RIGHT by Robert Lanham (NAL, 2006)
  93. THE THEOCONS: SECULAR AMERICA UNDER SIEGE by Damon Linker (Doubleday, 2006)
  94. THE TRUTH ABOUT CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS: WHAT THEY THINK AND WHAT THEY BELIEVE, by Andrew Greeley et.al. (University Of Chicago Press, 2006)
  95. THE VALUES CAMPAIGN?: THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT AND THE 2004 ELECTIONS by John Clifford Green, et al. (Georgetown University Press, 2006)
  96. THY KINGDOM COME: HOW THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT DISTORTS THE FAITH AND THREATENS AMERICA by Randall Balmer (Basic Books, 2006)
  97. TRUMPING RELIGION: THE NEW CHRISTIAN RIGHT, THE FREE SPEECH CLAUSE, AND THE COURTS by Stephen P Brown (University of Alabama Press, 2004)
  98. TURN NEITHER TO THE RIGHT NOR TO THE LEFT by Eric D Schansberg (Alertness, 2003)
  99. UNCHRISTIAN: WHAT A NEW GENERATION REALLY THINKS ABOUT CHRISTIANITY... AND WHY IT MATTERS by David Kinnaman & Gabe Lyons (Baker, 2007)
  100. UNCOMPROMISING POSITIONS: GOD, SEX, AND THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, by Elizabeth Anne Oldmixon (Georgetown University Press, 2005)
  101. UNDER GOD? RELIGIOUS FAITH AND LIBERAL DEMOCRACY by Michael J. Perry (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
  102. USING TERRI: THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT'S CONSPIRACY TO TAKE AWAY OUR RIGHTS by Jon B Eisenberg (HarperCollins, 2005)
  103. WAIT! DON'T MOVE TO CANADA: A STAY-AND-FIGHT STRATEGY TO WIN BACK AMERICA by Bill Scher (Rodale Books, 2006)
  104. WAYWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS: FREEING THE GOSPEL FROM POLITICAL CAPTIVITY by Charles Marsh (Oxford University Press, 2007)
  105. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? HOW CONSERVATIVES WON THE HEART OF AMERICA by Thomas Frank (Owl Books, 2005)
  106. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT by Jan G Linn (Brown Walker Press, 2004)
  107. WHOSE FREEDOM? THE BATTLE OVER AMERICA'S MOST IMPORTANT IDEA by George Lakoff (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006)
  108. WHY THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IS WRONG: A MINISTER'S MANIFESTO FOR TAKING BACK YOUR FAITH, YOUR FLAG, YOUR FUTURE by Robin Meyers (Jossey-Bass, 2006)
  109. WHY THE FUNDAMENTALIST RIGHT IS SO FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG by Gerald Paske (Marquette Books, 2006)
  110. WHY THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT IS WRONG ABOUT SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE by Rob Boston (Prometheus Books, 2003)
  111. WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE: THE RISE OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT IN AMERICA by William
  112. WITH GOD ON THEIR SIDE: GEORGE W. BUSH AND THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT by Esther Kaplan (New Press, 2005)
Posted by Jim Johnson at 21:31:27 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) |