Religion in American Politics: A Short HistoryPrinceton University Press, 01/02/2010 - 296 páginas The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion. But they could not keep religion out of American politics. From the election of 1800, when Federalist clergymen charged that deist Thomas Jefferson was unfit to lead a "Christian nation," to today, when some Democrats want to embrace the so-called Religious Left in order to compete with the Republicans and the Religious Right, religion has always been part of American politics. In Religion in American Politics, Frank Lambert tells the fascinating story of the uneasy relations between religion and politics from the founding to the twenty-first century. |
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Elusive Protestant Unity Sunday Mails Catholic Immigration and Sectional Division | 41 |
The Gospel of Wealth and the Social Gospel Industrialization and the Rise of Corporate America | 74 |
Faith and Science The ModernistFundamentalistControversy | 104 |
Religious and Political Liberalism The Rise of Big Government from the New Deal to the Cold War | 130 |
Civil Rights as a Religious Movement Politics in the Streets | 160 |
The Rise of the Religious Right The Reagan Revolutionand the Moral Majority | 184 |
Reemergence of the Religious Left? Americas Culture War in the Early Twentyfirst Century | 218 |
Notes | 251 |
Index | 271 |