The Federalist trajectory is exemplified in the career of Timothy Dwight, the Congregationalist minister who’d compared the American Revolution to the cause of Israel and envisioned the new nation as a happy New England village with “republican happiness sustained by Christianity.” Then came an awareness of both the French Revolution and the menacing Democratic-Republican coalition. American Christianity would retain its “combative” origins, though, in being continually defined against the threat of atheism. Faith in America then became, as Den Hartog puts it, “more individualistic, voluntaristic, and issues-oriented” - more “evangelical” and recognizably Victorian. (Of course, the Illuminati had to be involved as well.) Eventually, these anxious Federalists, their political options fast diminishing after 1800, started reform societies. This contagion already seemed present in menacing Jeffersonian guise. And it only had a little to do with sex.įrom the 1790s, Federalist writers worried about a migration of unbelief from Revolutionary France - that the opera singer enthroned in the Cathedral of Notre Dame as the goddess of Reason might find sisters within New England’s more provincial, less ornate Congregational spires. Jonathan Den Hartog’s new book, Patriotism & Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation, shows that intense religious argument, particularly about infidelity, has been part of the history of the United States nearly from the start. Trump in 2016 (Douglas Kmiec) Chapter 8: The Catholic Vote in the Election of Joe Biden in 2020 (Mark Gray)Ĭhapter 9: The Catholic Latino Vote in 2020 (Olivier Richomme)Ĭhapter 10: “Can We Get the Catholic Vote”?: The Effects of Catholic Nominees in Presidential Elections (Ted G.Philip Larkin famously said that sexual intercourse began in “nineteen sixty-three,” and many Americans doubtless imagine that religious controversy migrated here soon after the post-coital cigarette. Catholic Bishops: From Separationism to Public Intervention (Marie Gayte)Ĭhapter 6: The Holy See and the Catholic Community in the 2020 Presidential Election (Gerald Fogarty)Ĭhapter 7: The Catholic Vote in the Election of Donald J. Rozell)Ĭhapter 2: Catholic Patterns in the American Left (Amandine Barb)Ĭhapter 3: Catholic Colonization of the American Right (Blandine Chelini-Pont)Ĭhapter 4: Catholics and Evangelicals: Does Donald Trump’s Loss Mean the End of the Religious Right? (Neal J. Among key topics covered in this volume are whether Biden?s Catholic identity was key to his achieving a larger percentage of the Catholic vote than achieved by Hillary Clinton in 2016 the role of the Catholic bishops in US elections the critically important role of the Catholic Latino vote in US elections the conservative Catholic and evangelical alliance in US politics and the distinctive politics of social justice Catholics and socially conservative Catholics.Ĭhapter 1: Introduction: The Catholic Vote in the United States (Mark J. To understand the intersection of religion, politics, and election outcomes in the US requires an analysis of the role played by Catholics. There is a paucity of academic books on Catholic voters, even though Catholics comprise nearly one-quarter of the US national popular vote and commonly are called the ?swing vote.? Scholars of religion and politics tend to focus heavily on the evangelical right, thus overlooking the powerful influence of Catholic voters who, by the accounts in this volume, were critical to the presidential election of President Joe Biden. This book examines the evolution of the Catholic vote in the United States and the role of Catholic voters in the 2020 national elections more specifically.
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