America S Religious Wars
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America S Religious Wars
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Author : Kathleen M. Sands
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-04
America S Religious Wars written by Kathleen M. Sands and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-04 with Religion and politics categories.
How American conflicts about religion have always symbolized our foundational political values When Americans fight about "religion," we are also fighting about our conflicting identities, interests, and commitments. Religion-talk has been a ready vehicle for these conflicts because it is built on enduring contradictions within our core political values. The Constitution treats religion as something to be confined behind a wall, but in public communications, the Framers treated religion as the foundation of the American republic. Ever since, Americans have translated disagreements on many other issues into an endless debate about the role of religion in our public life. Built around a set of compelling narratives--George Washington's battle with Quaker pacifists; the fight of Mormons and Catholics for equality with Protestants; Teddy Roosevelt's concept of land versus the Lakota's concept; the creation-evolution controversy; and the struggle over sexuality--this book shows how religion, throughout American history, has symbolized, but never resolved, our deepest political questions.
The Wars Of America
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Author : Ronald Wells
language : en
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Release Date : 1991
The Wars Of America written by Ronald Wells and has been published by Mercer University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with United States categories.
Religion And The American Civil War
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Author : Randall M. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1998-11-05
Religion And The American Civil War written by Randall M. Miller and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-05 with History categories.
The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War. The authors show that religion, understood in its broadest context as a culture and community of faith, was found wherever the war was found. Comprising essays by such scholars as Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Drew Gilpin Faust, Mark Noll, Reid Mitchell, Harry Stout, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and featuring an afterword by James McPherson, this collection marks the first step towards uncovering this crucial yet neglected aspect of American history.
God And War
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Author : Raymond Haberski, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-23
God And War written by Raymond Haberski, Jr. and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-23 with History categories.
Americans have long considered their country to be good—a nation "under God" with a profound role to play in the world. Yet nothing tests that proposition like war. Raymond Haberski argues that since 1945 the common moral assumptions expressed in an American civil religion have become increasingly defined by the nation's experience with war. God and War traces how three great postwar “trials”—the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the War on Terror—have revealed the promise and perils of an American civil religion. Throughout the Cold War, Americans combined faith in God and faith in the nation to struggle against not only communism but their own internal demons. The Vietnam War tested whether America remained a nation "under God," inspiring, somewhat ironically, an awakening among a group of religious, intellectual and political leaders to save the nation's soul. With the tenth anniversary of 9/11 behind us and the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down, Americans might now explore whether civil religion can exist apart from the power of war to affirm the value of the nation to its people and the world.
God On Trial
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Author : Peter Irons
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-05-17
God On Trial written by Peter Irons and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-17 with Law categories.
An insightful and dramatic account of religious conflicts that keep America divided, from the acclaimed author of A People's History of the Supreme Court As the United States has become increasingly conservative, both politically and socially, in recent years, the fight between the religious right and those advocating for the separation of church and state has only intensified. As he did in A People's History of the Supreme Court, award-winning author and legal expert Peter Irons combines an approachable, journalistic narrative style with intimate first-person accounts from both sides of the conflict. Set against the backdrop of American history, politics, and law, God on Trial relates the stories of six recent cases in communities that have become battlefields in America's growing religious wars.
Religious Intolerance America And The World
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Author : John Corrigan
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-04-17
Religious Intolerance America And The World written by John Corrigan and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-17 with Religion categories.
As the news shows us every day, contemporary American culture and politics are rife with people who demonize their enemies by projecting their own failings and flaws onto them. But this is no recent development. Rather, as John Corrigan argues here, it’s an expression of a trauma endemic to America’s history, particularly involving our long domestic record of religious conflict and violence. Religious Intolerance, America, and the World spans from Christian colonists’ intolerance of Native Americans and the role of religion in the new republic’s foreign-policy crises to Cold War witch hunts and the persecution complexes that entangle Christians and Muslims today. Corrigan reveals how US churches and institutions have continuously campaigned against intolerance overseas even as they’ve abetted or performed it at home. This selective condemnation of intolerance, he shows, created a legacy of foreign policy interventions promoting religious freedom and human rights that was not reflected within America’s own borders. This timely, captivating book forces America to confront its claims of exceptionalism based on religious liberty—and perhaps begin to break the grotesque cycle of projection and oppression.
The Restructuring Of American Religion
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Author : Robert Wuthnow
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-09
The Restructuring Of American Religion written by Robert Wuthnow and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-09 with Social Science categories.
The description for this book, The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War II, will be forthcoming.
The Politics Of Religious Conflict
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Author : Richard E. Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : University Press of America
Release Date : 1980
The Politics Of Religious Conflict written by Richard E. Morgan and has been published by Washington, D.C. : University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Political Science categories.
Faith In The Fight
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Author : Jonathan H. Ebel
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-02-24
Faith In The Fight written by Jonathan H. Ebel and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-24 with History categories.
Faith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War. Recovering the thoughts and experiences of American troops, nurses, and aid workers through their letters, diaries, and memoirs, Jonathan Ebel describes how religion--primarily Christianity--encouraged these young men and women to fight and die, sustained them through war's chaos, and shaped their responses to the war's aftermath. The book reveals the surprising frequency with which Americans who fought viewed the war as a religious challenge that could lead to individual and national redemption. Believing in a "Christianity of the sword," these Americans responded to the war by reasserting their religious faith and proclaiming America God-chosen and righteous in its mission. And while the war sometimes challenged these beliefs, it did not fundamentally alter them. Revising the conventional view that the war was universally disillusioning, Faith in the Fight argues that the war in fact strengthened the religious beliefs of the Americans who fought, and that it helped spark a religiously charged revival of many prewar orthodoxies during a postwar period marked by race riots, labor wars, communist witch hunts, and gender struggles. For many Americans, Ebel argues, the postwar period was actually one of "reillusionment." Demonstrating the deep connections between Christianity and Americans' experience of the First World War, Faith in the Fight encourages us to examine the religious dimensions of America's wars, past and present, and to work toward a deeper understanding of religion and violence in American history.
Religion And War
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Author : Timothy J. Demy
language : en
Publisher:
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Religion And War written by Timothy J. Demy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Looking at topics across the spectrum of America's wars, religious groups, personalities, and ideas, this volume shows that even in an increasingly secular society, religious roots and values run deep throughout American society and are elevated in times of war. There is a long and deep relationship between religion, politics, and war in U.S. history. While there is a constitutional and legal separation of religion and the state in American society, religion has been and remains a potent force in American culture and politics affecting many aspects of life, including perspectives on war and peace and the experience of war in U.S. history. From the American Revolution to the wars of the 21st century, religious values have informed and influenced American attitudes toward war and peace and have provided rationale for support and non-support of American participation in conflicts. An overview essay surveys the background and significance of religion in American culture and provides historical context for discussions of contemporary topics. A timeline highlights key events related to wars and conflicts. The volume then includes more than 50 topical essays that discuss specific wars as well as religious themes within culture and politics, ultimately providing a detailed overview of the intersection of religion, war, and politics in contemporary America.