Catholics and Politics: The Dynamic Tension Between Faith and Power (Paperback)

Catholics and Politics: The Dynamic Tension Between Faith and Power Book Description

"Catholics and Politics" depicts the ambivalent character of Catholics' mainstream "arrival" in the U.S. over the past forty years, integrating social scientific, historical and moral accounts of persistent tensions between faith and power. Divided into four parts—Catholics Leaders in U.S. Politics; The Catholic Public; Catholics and the Federal Government; and International Policy and the Vatican—it describes the implications of Catholic universalism for voting patterns, international policymaking, and partisan alliances. The book reveals complex intersections of Catholicism and politics and the new opportunities for influence and risks of cooptation of political power produced by these shifts. Contributors include political scientists, ethicists, and theologians. The book will be of interest to scholars in political science, religious studies, and Christian ethics and all lay Catholics interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the tensions that can exist between

About the Author :

Mark J Rozell has contributed to Catholics and Politics: The Dynamic Tension Between Faith and Power as an author. MARK J. ROZELL is Associate Professor of Political Science at American University and a Lecturer in the Catholic University graduate program in congressional studies.

Michael A Genovese has contributed to Catholics and Politics: The Dynamic Tension Between Faith and Power as an author. MICHAEL A. GENOVESE, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for Leadership Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, is the author of The Nixon Presidency: Power and Politics in Turbulent Times (Greenwood, 1990) and Women as National Leaders (1993), among a score of other works on the presidency.

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