America's religious wars : the embattled heart of our public life /

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When Americans fight about "religion," we are also fighting about our conflicting identities, interests, and commitments. Religion-talk has been a ready vehicle for these conflicts because it is built on enduring contradictions within our core political values. The Constitution treats reli...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sands, Kathleen M., 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Religion and politics > United States.
Religion et politique > États-Unis.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
HISTORY > North America.
Politics and government
Religion and politics
United States > Politics and government.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : check your baggage here
  • Religion as we know it : the career of a contradiction
  • Walls and foundations : Washington, Jefferson, and religious double-talk
  • Protestants, Catholics, and Mormons : religion and the struggle for citizenship
  • Nicholas Black Elk and Theodore Roosevelt : religion and the fight for land
  • Creationists and evolutionists : religion and the question of human origins
  • Religion, race, and science : the battle over sexuality
  • Conclusion : heart conditions.

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