Format:
Online-Ressource (266 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1280126345
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9780226675121
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9781280126345
Series Statement:
American beginnings, 1500-1900
Content:
Americans have long acknowledged a deep connection between evangelical religion and democracy in the early days of the republic. This is a widely accepted narrative that is maintained as a matter of fact and tradition—and in spite of evangelicalism’s more authoritarian and reactionary aspects.In Conceived in Doubt, Amanda Porterfield challenges this standard interpretation of evangelicalism’s relation to democracy and describes the intertwined relationship between religion and partisan politics that emerged in the formative era of the early republic. In the 1790s, rel
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Faith in reason and the problem of skepticismPartisan mistrust -- Religion to the rescue -- Church citizenship -- Religion in the formation of political parties -- Honor into the breach.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226675145
Additional Edition:
ISBN 128012752X
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Conceived in Doubt Religion and Politics in the New American Nation
Language:
English
Keywords:
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