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Graduate Symposium on Religion and Politics

2018-2019

VOCATION IN THE

AMERICAN IMAGINATION

Reading Packet 2

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Boisi Center 2018-2019 Graduate Symposium on Religion and Politics

VOCATION IN THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION

Table of Contents

Huntington, Samuel P. Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004.

“Individualism and the Work Ethic” ………………….…… pp. 5-11 (69-75)

“Moralism and the Reform Ethic” …………………….…… pp. 11-16 (75-80)

Alexis de Tocqueville. Democracy in America. Translated by Harvey C. Masnfield and Delba Winthrop. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [2001].

Chapters 8-18, skipping 12, 14, 17 …………………………… pp. 19-40