Religion, politics, and American identity new directions, new controversies

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research on American religion and politics : a survey of the field / Laura R. Olson -- Discourse bless America : rebuilding the national mythos after September 11 / Melissa M. Wilcox -- The enduring power of the American jeremiad / Andrew R. Murphy and Jennifer Miller -- Stories of sinfulness : narrative identity in America / David S. Gutterman -- The divisiveness rationale and negative reference group associations in church-state controversies / Louis Bolce and Gerald de Maio -- Religion on main street : toward a new politics of the sacred and secular / Mark Button -- Latino spirituality and U.S. politics : a communitarianism that crosses borders / John Francis Burke -- Religion in the workplace and the problem of the first amendment / Samuel P. Nelson -- Greening the divine : religion, the environment, and politics in twenty-first century North America / Joe Bowersox -- Religion, race, and rhetoric : the Black church, religious interest groups, and charitable choice / Larycia A. Hawkins -- Inside, out, and in-between : sexual minorities, the Christian right, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America / Jyl J. Josephson and Cynthia Burack -- Religion, politics, and American identity after September 11 : reflections on recent scholarship.