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Aftermath -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Politics -- Chapter 1: A Case Study in Group Polarization (with Warnings for the Future) -- Chapter 2: Sex and Politics at the Close of the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 3: Public, Private, and the Gender Division of Emotional Labor -- Chapter 4: Everything You Thought You Knew about Impeachment Is Wrong -- Chapter 5: Pierre Elliot Trudeau -- Part II: Law -- Chapter 6: Comparing the Independent Counsel to Other Prosecutors -- Chapter 7: Legalizing Outrage -- Chapter 8: The Gold Standard and Guilt-Edged Insecurities -- Chapter 9: Sex, Harm, and Impeachment -- Chapter 10: Impeachment -- Chapter 11: The Constitutional Politics of the Clinton Impeachment -- Part III: Shaping Public Opinion -- Chapter 12: Ontology in the Clinton Era -- Chapter 13: All We Had to Do Was Rationalize the Sex -- Chapter 14: Perjury and Impeachment -- Chapter 15: Impeachment and Enchanting Arts -- Chapter 16: A Year after the Acquittal in the Impeachment Trial -- Part IV: Religion -- Chapter 17: An Un-Christian Pursuit -- Chapter 18: Abuse of Power as a Cultural Construct -- Chapter 19: Bill Clinton and the American Character -- Chapter 20: The Clinton Scandal -- Part V: The Political Is Personal -- Chapter 21: The Spectacle and the Libertine -- Chapter 22: The Political Is Personal -- Chapter 23: Dropped Drawers -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index

Introduction / Leonard Kaplan and Charles Cohen -- Part I: The nature of religious argument -- Naked in the public square : depth of commitment in the liberal state today / Lenn E. Goodman -- Social contract in modern Jewish thought : a theological critique / David Novak -- Justices story and Holmes in the realm of the "brooding omnipresence" / Ann Althouse -- Theology, society and the vocation of the university / Arnold M. Eisen -- Part II: Theologies of the marketplace -- St. Augustine, markets, and the liberal polity / Elizabeth Mensch -- When markets and gambling converge / David A. Skeel, Jr. -- Part III: European perspectives -- A theological case for the liberal democratic state / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- Preserving the natural : Karl Barth, the Barmen Declaration : Article V, and Dietrick Bonhoeffe's Ethics / Carl J. Rasmussen -- Materialism and transcendence / John Milbank -- Part IV: Asian perspectives -- A Jewish and democratic state : a normative perspective / Aviezer Ravitzky -- In the shadows of modernity : theology and sovereignty in South Asian Islam / Ayesha Jalal -- A constitutional analysis of the secularization of the Tibetan diaspora : the role of the Dalai Lama / Lobsang Sangay -- Part V: Religion and terror -- Grave images : terror and justice / Regina M. Schwartz -- Compassion, knowledge and power : a Tibetan approach to politics and religion / John D. Dunne

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