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REASON, FEELING, RELIGION, AND BIGOTRY - Who's the Bigot? Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law. By Linda C. McClain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 304. $39.95 (cloth); $26.99 (digital). ISBN: 9780190877200.

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Who's the Bigot? Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law. By Linda C. McClain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 304. $39.95 (cloth); $26.99 (digital). ISBN: 9780190877200.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2021

M. Cathleen Kaveny
M. Cathleen Kaveny*
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Darald and Juliet Libby Professor of Law and Theology, Boston College
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bigotryprophetic indictmentculture warssame sex marriageEvangelical Protestantismreligious feeling
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , August 2021 , pp. 318 - 323
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1 For further discussion of prophetic indictment, see Kaveny, M. Cathleen, Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 See Darsey, James, The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America (New York: New York University Press, 1997)Google Scholar.

3 Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., s.v. “bigot (n.),” accessed June 30, 2021, https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/18890?redirectedFrom=bigot#eid.

4 The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th ed., s.v. “bigot,” accessed July 13, 2021, https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=bigot.

5 H. Wedgewood, “The Etymology of Bigot” (Correspondence), The Academy: A Weekly Review of Religion, Science, and Art, August 9, 1879.

6 Anatoly Liberman, “Beggars, Buggers, and Bigots, Part 4,” OUPblog, March 19, 2014, https://blog.oup.com/2014/03/etymology-word-origin-beggar-bugger-bigot-part-4/.

7 Merriam-Webster, s.v. “bigot (n.),” accessed July 13, 2021, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigot.

8 For a sober reflection on the situation by a brilliant historian, who himself is an Evangelical Protestant, see Noll, Mark A., The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1994)Google Scholar.

9 For a critical examination of Schleiermacher's use of the term, see Behrens, Georg, “Feeling of Absolute Dependence or Absolute Feeling of Dependence? (What Schleiermacher Really Said and Why It Matters),” Religious Studies 34, no. 4 (1998): 471–81CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10 John Wesley, “I Felt My Heart Strangely Warmed,” The Journal of John Wesley, ed. Percy Livingstone Parker (Grand Rapids: Christian Ethereal Library, n.d.), 55, accessed July 19, 2021, https://ccel.org/w/wesley/journal/cache/journal.pdf.

11 American Methodists have continued to draw heavily on the Wesleyan Quadrilateral. See “Glossary: Wesley Quadrilateral, the,” UMC.org, May 25, 2015, https://www.umc.org/en/content/glossary-wesleyan-quadrilateral-the.

12 Noll, Mark A., The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015)Google Scholar. See especially chap. 3, “The Crisis over the Bible.”

13 See Forrester, Katrina, In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019)Google Scholar. The phrase “peak Rawls,” is borrowed from Susan Barndt's review of Forrester. Susan McWilliams Barndt, review of In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy, by Katrina Forrester, Commonweal, May 11, 2020, https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/god-trick.

14 Second Vatican Council, Diginitatis Humanae [Declaration on Religious Freedom] (December 7, 1965), https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651207_dignitatis-humanae_en.html.

15 Everson v. Bd. of Ed., 330 U.S. 1 (1947).