Christian nation? : the United States in popular perception and historical reality /

This study examines America's complex and confusing history of arguing with itself over religion and secularism, God and politics, church and state. In 2009, President Barack Obama stated that the United States was most definitely not a "Christian Nation." In 1797, a representative of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Upchurch, Thomas Adams
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, ©2010.
Subjects:
Church and state > United States > History.
Christianity and politics > United States > History.
National characteristics, American.
Église et État > États-Unis > Histoire.
Christianisme et politique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Christianity and politics
Church and state
Historiography
National characteristics, American
Religion
Nationalcharakter.
Religion.
Christentum.
Kirche.
Staat.
United States > Church history.
United States > History > Religious aspects > Christianity.
United States > Religion.
United States > Historiography.
États-Unis > Histoire religieuse.
États-Unis > Religion.
United States
USA.
Church history
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The church-state issue as historical entertainment
  • The American "way" : fabricating a new creed for a nascent nation
  • The American "Israel" : considering the Annuit Coeptis theory
  • The American "pie" : considering the history of E Pluribus Unum
  • The American "Magna Carta" : Congress shall make no law ... so neither should the Supreme Court
  • The American "orthodoxy" : nonconformity among the founders
  • The American "irrationalism" : the founders and the reasonableness of religion
  • The American "exemplars" : founders who led by example
  • the American "duality" : the art and science of equipoise
  • A novus ordo seclorum?

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