America's Four Gods: What We Say About God—and What That Says About Us

Believers in a Distant God tend to be somewhat laissez-faire on certain hot-button political issues, believing that homosexuality is just "a part of the natural order of things, and that the decision to have an abortion should be left to the woman (71, 77). [...]the academic reader in the human...

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Published in:Church history 2012, Vol.81 (3), p.753-755
Main Author: Lofton, Kathryn
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Benedict XVI (Pope)
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Children
Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
Mead, George Herbert (1863-1931)
Politics
Polls & surveys
Psychology
Reading
Religion
Rituals
Robertson, Pat (Marion G Robertson)
Sexuality
Spinoza, Benedictus de (1632-1677)
Theology
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Summary:Believers in a Distant God tend to be somewhat laissez-faire on certain hot-button political issues, believing that homosexuality is just "a part of the natural order of things, and that the decision to have an abortion should be left to the woman (71, 77). [...]the academic reader in the humanities will struggle with this work, insofar as it offers up overt caricature ("religious groups with a very engaged God tend to hold rituals high in emotional energy"), short-shrift psychology ("more than half of Americans who believe in an Authoritative God remember being spanked regularly as a child"), and complicated claims as axiomatic assertions ("unsurprisingly, many atheists [33 percent] never attended church as children") (126, 39, 41).
ISSN:0009-6407
1755-2613
DOI:10.1017/S0009640712001886