Format:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 198 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0313386420
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0313386439
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9780313386428
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9780313386435
Content:
Hundreds of books are devoted to the ever-timely subject of the separation of church and state in America, but none does exactly what Christian Nation?: The United States in Popular Perception and Historical Reality does. Unlike other studies, this intriguing examination asks the right questions, defines the terms of the debate, explores the widely diverging points of view with equal respect for all sides, and provides insightful commentary and factual conclusions that cut through the clutter.||The book begins with several questions: Is the United States a "Christian Nation?" Has it ever been?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-191) and index
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Christian Nation?: The United States in Popular Perception and Historical Reality; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Church-State Issue as Historical Entertainment; Perceptions; Historiography; 1. The American ''Way'': Fabricating a New Creed for a Nascent Nation; The National Paradox; The Founders and What They Founded; Nationalism, the Civic Religion, and Peer Pressure; 2. The American ''Israel'': Considering the Annuit Coeptis Theory; A Chosen People; Religiosity and the Numbers Game; 3. The American ''Pie'': Considering the History of E Pluribus Unum; Ingredients; Recipe
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Move to America, Shake WellServe Hot; 4. The American ''Magna Carta'': Congress Shall Make No Law ... So Neither Should the Supreme Court; Division of Labor; Developments in the Revolution and Early Republic; The Philosophy of Separationism; Exploring the First Amendment; 5. The American ''Orthodoxy'': Nonconformity among the Founders; Freethinkers and Freethinking; Deism; Freemasonry; 6. The American ''Irrationalism'': The Founders and the Reasonableness of Religion; The Declaration of Irrationalism; The Irrational Constitution; A Utilitarian Faith?
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7. The American ''Exemplars'': Founders Who Led by ExampleThe Bit Players; Benjamin Franklin; George Washington; John Adams; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; Alexander Hamilton; 8. The American ''Duality'': The Art and Science of Equipoise; Faith and Reason; God and Mammon; North and South; Conservatism and Liberalism; Conclusion: A Novus Ordo Seclorum?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780313386428
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Christian Nation? : The United States in Popular Perception and Historical Reality
Language:
English
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