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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... declared that “ religion is a private thing . ” It was , in his words , a " personal transaction between God and a devout soul , " and he added , “ society can have nothing to do with it . " Until 1965 , Jerry Falwell , the Lynchburg ...
... galvanized religious conservatives more than any other was the Supreme Court decision in Roe v . Wade ( 1973 ) declaring unconstitutional most laws prohibiting abortion and making the decision to terminate 3 INTRODUCTION.
... declaring himself to be of a “ sect by myself , ” a sentiment shared by Thomas Paine , who avowed , " My mind is my own church . ” 8 While powerful and persistent in shaping the nation's cul- ture , religion is not the only influence on ...
... presidential campaign of 1800 when some pro - Federalist ministers declared Thomas Jefferson unfit for the presidency because of his religious beliefs . American Culture - Sacred and Secular From the earliest English 16 CHAPTER ONE.
... declare their independence and craft the Constitution : liberalism and civic humanism . The Enlightenment provided them with the optimistic belief that human reason , if rightly applied , could not only under- stand the physical and ...
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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 |