Using the historic Minnesota state government shutdown of 2011 as a backdrop, Interfaith Advocacy describes the work of the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition, an interfaith advocacy group that brings together leaders from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim traditions to advocate on behalf of a range of policies. As the nation's first statewide interfaith lobbying group, the story of the JRLC facilitates an examination of the role of political advocacy groups in state level American politics: what they are, how and why they form, how they mobilize citizens to participate in the political process, how they work to influence government, and what their impact is on American democracy.
With research based on two years of in-depth interviews, participant observation, and analysis of archival records, this volume offers proof that it is possible to build successful long term political coalitions among improbable allies. The book investigates both the strengths and weaknesses of this model of advocacy and concludes that the presence of religious advocacy groups in the political process offers substantial benefits of representation, concern for underrepresented issues and groups, and the development of networks of social capital.
Interfaith Advocacy is grounded in the theoretical literature of political science but also accessible to all readers who have an interest in political advocacy, state politics, or religion and politics.
Автор: Gin, Willie Название: Minorities and Reconstructive Coalitions ISBN: 0367885727 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367885724 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 44910.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Through comparative and historical analysis, the book shows that reconstructive coalitions, such as labor and pan-Christian moral movements, affect minority incorporation and bring Catholics and Protestants together under new identities and significantly improving Catholic standing. It provides overviews of the history of Catholics in Australia,
Автор: Mitchell Michael Название: Grassroots and Coalitions ISBN: 1412852617 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781412852616 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 32650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The main focus of this volumeis an exploration of the patterns of competition for political power at the state and local levels in American politics
Автор: Cohen Sheldon S. Название: Commodore Abraham Whipple of the Continental Navy: Privateer, Patriot, Pioneer ISBN: 0813039789 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813039787 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 25040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "A welcome literary tapestry, a vivid depiction of events woven together with threads of strong scholarship and attention to detail.... An overlooked and somewhat tragic naval figure, one largely lost in the sea smoke of the history of the Continental Navy." - New England Quarterly
Автор: Barnes Название: Love`S Whipping Boy ISBN: 1469614545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469614540 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 38810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Working to reconcile the Christian dictum to ""love one's neighbor as oneself"" with evidence of U.S. sociopolitical aggression, including slavery, corporal punishment of children, and Indian removal, Elizabeth Barnes focuses her attention on aggressors--rather than the weak or abused--to suggest ways of understanding paradoxical relationships between empathy, violence, and religion that took hold so strongly in nineteenth-century American culture.Looking at works by Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Louisa May Alcott, among others, Barnes shows how violence and sensibility work together to produce a more ""sensitive"" citizenry. Aggression becomes a site of redemptive possibility because salvation is gained when the powerful protagonist identifies with the person he harms. Barnes argues that this identification and emotional transformation come at a high price, however, as the reparative ends are bought with another's blood. Critics of nineteenth-century literature have tended to think about sentimentality and violence as opposing strategies in the work of nation-building and in the formation of U.S. national identity. Yet to understand how violence gets folded into sentimentality's egalitarian goals is to recognize, importantly, the deep entrenchment of aggression in the empathetic structures of liberal, Christian culture in the United States.
Автор: Whipple Kit Название: Cleveland`s Colorful Characters ISBN: 1645593274 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781645593270 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 55130.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Tells many interesting and unknown stories about Cleveland and some of its more interesting citizens. Many of these citizens helped create some of Cleveland`s and the country`s finest institutions. Unfortunately, many of these stories are unknown to those living in the Cleveland area, and even fewer outside the area.
Автор: Whipple Kit Название: Cleveland`s Colorful Characters ISBN: 1645593266 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781645593263 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 26620.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Tells many interesting and unknown stories about Cleveland and some of its more interesting citizens. Many of these citizens helped create some of Cleveland`s and the country`s finest institutions. Unfortunately, many of these stories are unknown to those living in the Cleveland area, and even fewer outside the area.
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