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Christian America

Martha Nussbaum (Chicago): Roger Williams on Religious Freedom: The Universal Protects the Particular. Janet Nelson (Meredith): Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel: A Hopeful Theology for the Twenty-first Century Economy. A review of God’s Economy: Faith-Based Initiatives and the Caring State by Lew Daly. A review of A Place at the Table: George Eldon Ladd and the Rehabilitation of Evangelical Scholarship in America by John D'elia. A review of Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine by Peter Thuesen. A review of Christian America and the Kindgom of God by Richard Hughes. Sarah Curtis (Monash): Sarah Palin’s JerUSAlem and Pentecostal Faith: A Hysteric Symptom of American Utopianism? From Swans, Michael Barker on the Religious Right and World Vision's "charitable" evangelism. From CT, a review of Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches by Robert Wuthnow and The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith by Mark Noll; and a review essay on religion in the American South. Amy Sullivan reviews Prophet of Purpose: The Life of Rick Warren by Jeffery Sheler. From Church & State, an interview with Ronald Flowers, co-author of Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court; an interview with Frederick Lane, author of The Court and the Cross: The Religious Right’s Crusade to Reshape the Supreme Court; and an interview with Jay Wexler, author of Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church/State Wars. A review of Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels by Mary Gordon (and more).