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- Title
A Catholic for president?: John F. Kennedy and the `secular' theology of the Houston speech, 1960.
- Authors
Massa, Mark S.
- Abstract
Emphasizes the importance of then-presidential candidate John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech in Houston, Texas on the delineation of the role of religion in American politics. Role of the speech in the coming of age of American Catholicism; Significance of Kennedy's secularization of the presidency; Insuring of the privatization of religion in public rhetoric.
- Subjects
TEXAS; HOUSTON (Tex.); UNITED States; KENNEDY, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; HISTORY of religion &; politics; PRESIDENTIAL candidates; AMERICAN speeches, addresses, etc.; POLITICAL attitudes
- Publication
Journal of Church & State, 1997, Vol 39, Issue 2, p307
- ISSN
0021-969X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jcs/39.2.297