The Production of American Religious Freedom /

The Production of American Religious Freedom / / Finbarr Curtis.

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Americans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either “religion” or “freedom.” Rather than resolve these debates, Finbarr Curtis argues that there is no such thing as religious freedom. Lacking any consistent content, religious freedom is a shifting and malleable rheto...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Curtis, Finbarr,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:North American Religions ; 7
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. You, and You, and You: Charles Grandison Finney and Democracy
  • 2. I’m Not Myself To-night. I Owe Money: Louisa May Alcott and Salvation
  • 3. Sentiment Rules the World: William Jennings Bryan and Populism
  • 4. The Helpless White Minority: D. W. Griffith and Violence
  • 5. The Fundamental Faith of Every True American: Al Smith and Loyalty
  • 6. Do You Hate Me? Malcolm X and the Truth
  • 7. Science in a Little Box: Intelligent Design and Secularity
  • 8. The Most Sacred of All Property: Corporations and Persons
  • Epilogue: You, and You, and You
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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