PDF Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society by Holly Wardlow in History

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Do you know if you are going to heaven? Shortly after being appointed the first Director of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives—the "faith czar"—John J. DiIulio Jr. was asked this question. Suddenly DiIulio; a Catholic Democrat who pioneered programs for inner-city children; was acutely aware that he was no longer a private citizen who might have humored the television evangelist standing before him. Now he was; as he recalls in his introduction—"responsible for assisting the president in faithfully upholding the Constitution . . . and faithfully acting in the public interest without regard to religious identities."Using his brief tenure in the George W. Bush administration as a springboard; this lively; informative; and entertaining book leaps into the ongoing debate over whether as a nation America is Christian or secular and to what degree church-state separation is compelled by the Constitution. Avoiding political pieties; DiIulio makes an impassioned case for a middle way. Written by a leading political scholar; Godly Republic offers a fast-paced; faith-inspired; and fact-based approach to enhancing America's civic future for one and all.