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Hellfire Nation: Saints and Sinners in American Politics - Watch the Video
The American Constitution firmly separates church and state. Yet religion lies at the heart of American politics. How did America become a nation with the soul of a church? In this talk, James Morone, Professor of Political Science shows how religious and moral fervor ignites our fiercest social conflicts -- and how it moves dreamers to fight for social justice. Moral crusades inspired abolition, women’s suffrage and civil rights even as they led Americans to hang witches, enslave Africans and ban liquor. Today, moral arguments touch everything from the Iraq War to the electric campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama. (See Professor Morone’s bio below.) He spoke to the Rocky Mountain Brown Club on May 31, 2008. 50 minutes. (Get the Flash Player.)
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James Morone, Professor of Political Science
Professor Morone has been on the faculty of Yale University, The University of Chicago, and the University of Bremen in Germany. He has been at Brown since 1982 and has received many awards including the Hazeltine Citation for teaching in 1993, 1999, 2001, 2007, and 2008. He has published eight books. "The Democratic Wish" was a New York Times Notable Book and won the APSA's Kammerer Award. "Hellfire Nation" was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He has published over 130 articles and essays including regular contributions to The American Prospect and The London Review of Books and occasional op eds. in the New York Times. He has testified before Congress numerous times. Professor Morone received a BA from Middlebury College in ’73, an MA from the University of Chicago in ’76 and a PhD from the University of Chicago in ’82.
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