| March 6, 2008 |
Award-winning journalist and commentator E.J. Dionne will discuss his new book “Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right,” which asserts that the era of the Religious Right, and the exploitation of faith for political advantage, is over.
Based on years of research, “Souled Out” proposes that millions of religious Americans are reclaiming faith from those who would abuse it for narrow, partisan, and ideological purposes. In addition, the end of the Religious Right doesn’t signal the decline of evangelical Christianity but rather its disentanglement from a political machine that sold it out to a narrow electoral agenda, like opposition to gay marriage and abortion.
Written in the tradition of Reinhold and H. Richard Niebuhr, “Souled Out” hopes to change how we think and talk about religion and politics in the post-Bush era.
Dionne will be speaking with Lisa Specht, and a book signing will follow the event.
WHEN: 7:30pm
ADMISSION: $20
PURCHASE TICKETS: www.townhall-la.org/programs/register/1149
WHERE: James Bridge Theater @ UCLA
ADDRESS: 1409 Melnitz Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095
PARKING: UCLA Lot #3 @ the corner of Hilgard & Sunset, Fee $8
ADDITIONAL INFO: www.townhall-la.org/programs/register/1149
