Spiritualizing Politics without Politicizing Religion: The Example of Sargent Shriver

1. Religion and Politics: Doing Things Differently
1.1 Sargent Shriver
1.2 The Mess We’re In
1.3 Doing Things Differently
1.4 Interiority and Method
1.5 Shriver the Peacemaker
1.6 Outline of the Argument

2. The Public Faith of Sargent Shriver, 1955-1959
2.1 Shriver’s Religious Vocation to Public Life
2.2 Catholics and American Politics
2.3 Religion, Schools, and the “Wall of Separation”
2.4 Shriver’s Vision: Religious Resources for Guarding Diversity
2.5 The Campaign Against Racism
2.6 The Turn to Interiority
2.7 Concluding Remarks

3. Shriver on Spirituality and Politics 1961-1964
3.1 Shriver’s Vocation and the Peace Corps Years
3.2 The “Wall of Separation”
3.3 Political Backlash
3.4 Differentiating and Relating Spirituality and Politics: What Shriver Said
3.5 From Charity to Spirituality and Compassion
3.6 Spirituality, Politics, and the Peace Corps: What Shriver Did
3.7 Concluding Remarks

4. Explaining What Shriver Did
4.1 Religion and Politics: Shriver’s Catholic Tradition
4.2 Coming to Terms with Diversity
4.3 Transposing the Tradition: Diversity and Interiority
4.4 Interiority and Conflict: The Insight Approach
4.5 Religion and Politics Revisited

5. Religion, Politics, and the Peace Corps
5.1 The Peace Corps
5.2 How the Peace Corps Works
5.3 Interiority and Spirituality
5.4 Spiritual Values and the Peace Corps
5.5 Resolving Conflicts and Building Peace: The Peace Corps and the Insight Approach
5.6 Concluding Remarks

6. The Way Forward
6.1 Comprehensive Doctrines
6.2 Philosophical Method
6.3 Exemplary Figures

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