Religion and politics 2012
Religion has been pushed front and center in the Republican presidential primary: Mitt Romney's Mormon background and Newt Gingrich's religious and moral shifts have all generated news and controversy.
Disagreement over religion in politics is nothing new in America and goes back to colonial times. The University of Massachusetts Press book, Religious Liberty in America: The First Amendment in Historical and Contemporary Perspective by Bruce T. Murray, surveys religion and politics in America for the past 400 years. See reviews here.

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Self-interest ‘wrongly understood’
The widening gap in national wealth has exposed fissures in the national ethos known as civil religion. The Occupy Wall Street protests are a manifestation in this underlying conflict. Read how civil religion collides with laissez-faire economics in this column by Bruce T. Murray.

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