Background
West, John Garrett was born in 1964 in Auburn, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of John G. and Sophie W.
(Based on six years of original research and extensive int...)
Based on six years of original research and extensive interviews with former Disney studio staff, The Disney Live-Action Productions explores the live-action films and television shows of Walt Disney. The book takes the reader "behind the scenes" on such classic productions as Davy Crockett, Mary Poppins, The Parent Trap, Pollyanna, Treasure Island, Zorro, The Absent Minded Professor and many more. In addition, the book includes cast, credit and plot information for 38 live-action features and more than 70 television episodes.
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In recent years, controversies over abortion, school prayer, and religious cults have raised new questions about the delicate balance between church and state, between true believers and civic authority. John West shows that America's Founders had already anticipated and answered such questions by carefully defining religion's proper role in politics. West sheds new light on how the Founders tried to solve this fundamental theological-political problem and shows to what extent their solution worked in practice in the early decades of the new nation. West contends that the Founders and their immediate successors encouraged religion to play a dynamic, positive role in politics. This was not surprising, he argues, because in that era both church and state supported civic authority through a shared moral vision. This can clearly be seen, West demonstrates, in Christian political activism from the election of 1800 to 1835-a period that witnessed evangelical challenges to Cherokee removal, the delivery of Sunday mail, dueling, and other practices evangelicals deemed inconsistent with the moral order. These reform-minded evangelicals, West argues, were the period's most politically active religious adherents and thus provided the most stringent test of the Founders' attempts to devise a solution to the theological-political problem. Illuminating these neglected episodes in the history of religion and politics, West adds enormously to our understanding of early American church-state conflict. As such, his book will be enlightening for anyone interested in the political role of religion in America's past, evangelical religion in contemporary politics, and the current "culture wars."
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West, John Garrett was born in 1964 in Auburn, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of John G. and Sophie W.
Bachelor in Communications, University Washington, Seattle, 1986. Doctor of Philosophy in Government, Claremont Graduate University, California, 1992.
Managing editor Public Research, Syndicated, Monclair, California, 1986—1989. Lecturer California State University, San Bernardino, 1989—1989. Adjunct lecturer Azusa (California) Pacific University, 1989—1990.
Fellow Discovery Institute, Seattle, 1992—1993, senior fellow, since 1993, associate director Center for Science and Culture, since 1996. Assistant professor political science Seattle Pacific University, 1994—1999, associate professor political science, since 1999, chairman department political science, since 2000. Grant proposal reviewer United States Commission on the Bicentennial of the Constitution, 1990—1991.
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Member of American Political Science Association, Golden Key, Pi Sigma Alpha (president Claremont College chapter 1989-1990), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Sonja Elise Nutley.