Religion in American politics :a short history /Frank Lambert.

Name/Title

Religion in American politics :a short history /Frank Lambert.

Description

Providential and secular America : founding the republic -- Elusive Protestant unity : Sunday mails, Catholic immigration, and sectional division -- The "gospel of wealth" and the "social gospel" : industrialization and the rise of corporate America -- Faith and science : the modernist-fundamentalist controversy -- Religious and political liberalism : the rise of big government from the New Deal to the Cold War -- Civil rights as a religious movement : politics in the streets -- The rise of the "religious right" : the Reagan revolution and the "Moral Majority" -- Reemergence of the "religious left"? : America's culture war in the early twenty-first century. x, 294 p. ;23 cm.

Book Details

Author

Lambert, Frank

Place Published

City

Princeton

Date Published

circa 2008

Publication Subjects

Christianity and politics--United States. Christians--United States. Religions--History. Politieke participatie.--gtt Politieke activiteit.--gtt Godsdienst.--gtt Religion.--swd Politik.--swd Christianity and politics.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00859736 Christians.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00859760 Religions.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01093898 Christentum.--(DE-588)4010074-1--gnd Religion.--(DE-588)4049396-9--gnd Politik.--(DE-588)4046514-7--gnd

Call No.

BR516 .L36 2008

ISBN

9780691128337 (alk. paper), 0691128332 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007026054

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-269) and index.