Religion and American Public Life – serie
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American Catholic
The Politics of Faith During the Cold War
Av D. G. Hart
Inbunden, 2020
342 kr
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American Catholic places the rise of the United States' political conservatism in the context of ferment within the Roman Catholic Church. How did Roman Catholics shift from being perceived as un-American to emerging as the most vocal defenders of the United States as the standard bearer in world …
Fiery Gospel
The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the Road to Righteous War
Inbunden, 2019
338 kr
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Since its composition in Washington's Willard Hotel in 1861, Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" has been used to make America and its wars sacred. Few Americans reflect on its violent and redemptive imagery, drawn freely from prophetic passages of the Old and New Testaments, and fewer …
Red Dynamite
Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America
Häftad, 2021
359 kr
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In Red Dynamite, Carl R. Weinberg argues that creationism's tenacious hold on American public life depended on culture-war politics inextricably embedded in religion. Many Christian conservatives were convinced that evolutionary thought promoted immoral and even bestial social, sexual, and …
Separating Church and State
A History
Inbunden, 2022
556 kr
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Steven K. Green, renowned for his scholarship on the separation of church and state, charts the career of the concept and helps us understand how it has fallen into disfavor with many Americans. In 1802, President Thomas Jefferson distilled a leading idea in the early American republic and wrote of …
