Faith in Freedom : : Propaganda, Presidential Politics, and the Making of an American Religion / / Andrew R. Polk.
In Faith in Freedom, Andrew R. Polk argues that the American civil religion so many have identified as indigenous to the founding ideology was, in fact, the result of a strategic campaign of religious propaganda. Far from being the natural result of the nation's religious underpinning or the la...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Religion, War, and Unity
- Part One: Roosevelt
- 1. Removing Unnecessary and Artificial Divisions
- 2. Uniting against a Common Foe
- Part Two: Truman
- 3. Building a Better World
- 4. Filling the Void
- Part Three: Eisenhower
- 5. Creating the Space between Church and State
- 6. Being Religious in America
- Conclusion: Lasting Legacies of an American Faith
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index