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The Production of American Religious Freedom : The Production of American Religious Freedom /
Americans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either 'religion' or 'freedom'. Rather than resolve these debates, Finbarr Curtis argues that there is no such thing as religious freedom. Lacking any consistent content, religious freedom is a shifting...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Americans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either 'religion' or 'freedom'. Rather than resolve these debates, Finbarr Curtis argues that there is no such thing as religious freedom. Lacking any consistent content, religious freedom is a shifting and malleable rhetoric employed for a variety of purposes. While Americans often think of freedom as the right to be left alone, the free exercise of religion works to produce, challenge, distribute, and regulate different forms of social power. The book traces shifts in the notion of religious freedom in America from the Second Great Awakening, to the fiction of Louisa May Alcott and the films of D.W. Griffith, through William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes Trial, and up to debates over the Tea Party to illuminate how Protestants have imagined individual and national forms of identity. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781479823734 |