The Bible in the public square : its enduring influence in American life /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Chancey, Mark A. (Editor), Meyers, Carol (Editor), Meyers, Eric M. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Atlanta, Georgia : SBL Press, 2014.
Series:Biblical scholarship in North America ; no. 27.
Subjects:
Bible > Influence.
Bible > History.
Bible > Histoire.
Bible
Christianity and politics > Biblical teaching.
Christianisme et politique > Enseignement biblique.
Christianity and politics > Biblical teaching
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
United States > Church history.
États-Unis > Histoire religieuse.
United States
Church history
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Mark A. Chancey, Caroll Meyers, and Eric M. Meyers
  • PART 1. THE BIBLE AND POLITICS
  • The Bible in the presidential elections of 2012, 2008, 2004, and the collapse of American Secularism / Jacques Berlinerblau
  • Biblical imagery, the end times, and political action: the roots of Christian support for Zionism and Israel / Yaakov Ariel
  • PART 2. THE BIBLE, AMERICA'S FOUNDING ERA, AND AMERICAN IDENTITY
  • Does America have a Biblical heritage? / John Fea
  • "God's new Israel": American identification with Israel ancient and modern / Shalom Goldman
  • The image of the Protestant Bible in America / David Morgan
  • PART 3. THE BIBLE AND POPULAR CULTURE
  • Holy words in Hollywood: DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956) and American identity / Adele Reinhartz
  • History, memory, and forgetting in Psalm 137 / David W. Stowe
  • Comic book bibles: translation and the politics of interpretation / Rubâen Dupertuis
  • PART 4. THE BIBLE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS
  • Battling over the Bible in public schools: is common ground possible? / Charles C. Haynes
  • Public school Bible courses in historical perspective: North Carolina as a case study / Mark A. Chancey.

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