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GOD'S OWN COUNTRY
RELIGION AND POLITICS IN THE USA

By:

Stephen Bates

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0340909277

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9780340909270

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Publisher:

HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION

Pub. date:

12 June, 2008

Pages:

400

Description:

In this new controversial book, Stephen Bates, the Guardian's religious affairs correspondent, investigates the influence of religion on US politics. How has it come to play such an important role and how it will affect the future of the world's superpower as momentum grows to elect a new president?

Synopsis:

Right-wing evangelical Christianity has come to dominate American political and social life in recent years, dividing the country and sparking cultural and moral battles. High politics and low tactics frame a fierce debate which goes much further back in the country's history than the accession of George W. Bush in 2001. It's a battle that sears America's soul and affects the world. In this book Stephen Bates explains why what happens in the Bible Belt matters to us and how there are those who hope to export the battle to Britain. American fundamentalist religion has the potential to impact on crucial and acutely dangerous areas of the world. Its priorities are often arcane and sometimes weird. But it is already affecting American government policy at home and abroad: not least in Israel and the Middle East. How is religion affecting the current presidential elections and where will America's battle for its soul take the world next?

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