Religion in American Politics : : A Short History / / Frank Lambert.

• VerfasserIn: Lambert, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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 "Christia...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER ONE. Providential and Secular America: Founding the Republic
• CHAPTER TWO. Elusive Protestant Unity: Sunday Mails, Catholic Immigration, and Sectional Division
• CHAPTER THREE. The "Gospel of Wealth" and the "Social Gospel": Industrialization and the Rise of Corporate America
• CHAPTER FOUR. Faith and Science: The Modernist-Fundamentalist Controversy
• CHAPTER FIVE. Religious and Political Liberalism: The Rise of Big Government from the New Deal to the Cold War
• CHAPTER SIX. Civil Rights as a Religious Movement: Politics in the Streets
• CHAPTER SEVEN. The Rise of the "Religious Right": The Reagan Revolution and the "Moral Majority"
• CHAPTER EIGHT. Reemergence of the "Religious Left"? America's Culture War in the Early Twenty-first Century
• NOTES
• INDEX