Can Liberals Get a Witness?

For the Boston Review, Claude S. Fischer investigates how liberals and organized religion became disassociated, and what this means for the future of politics. Fischer argues that the continued separation between the left and religion will lead to an increasingly politically divided society: “For the nation as a whole, the estrangement of the left from the religious raises the specter of a society … that is polarized between politically conservative forces allied with religious institutions and progressive forces attacking religion for that very reason.”

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