Religion in American politics : a short history /

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The author examines several moments in American history--the sectional division of the States over slavery, the conflict between Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" and Walter Rauschenbusch's "Social Gospel," Fundamentalism's debates with Modernism, the Civil Righ...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lambert, Frank, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Christianity and politics > United States.
Christianisme et politique > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
RELIGION > Religion, Politics & State.
Christianity and politics
Christentum
Religion
Politik
Politieke participatie.
Politieke activiteit.
Godsdienst.
United States
USA
Verenigde Staten.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Providential and secular America : founding the republic
  • Elusive Protestant unity : Sunday mails, Catholic immigration, and sectional division
  • The "gospel of wealth" and the "social gospel" : industrialization and the rise of corporate America
  • Faith and science : the modernist-fundamentalist controversy
  • Religious and political liberalism : the rise of big government from the New Deal to the Cold War
  • Civil rights as a religious movement : politics in the streets
  • The rise of the "religious right" : the Reagan revolution and the "Moral Majority"
  • Reemergence of the "religious left"? : America's culture war in the early twenty-first century.

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