Christian nation? : the United States in popular perception and historical reality / / T. Adams Upchurch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822480803321
• Autore: Upchurch Thomas Adams
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , c2010; New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2023
• ISBN: 979-84-00-62618-0; 0-313-38643-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Disciplina: 322/.10973
• Soggetti: Christianity and politics - United States - History; Christianity - United States - History; Church and state - United States - History; National characteristics, American; United States Historiography; United States History Religious aspects Christianity; United States Religion
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Christian Nation?: The United States in Popular Perception and Historical Reality -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Church-State Issue as Historical Entertainment -- Perceptions -- Historiography -- 1. The American ''Way'': Fabricating a New Creed for a Nascent Nation -- The National Paradox -- The Founders and What They Founded -- Nationalism, the Civic Religion, and Peer Pressure -- 2. The American ''Israel'': Considering the Annuit Coeptis Theory -- A Chosen People -- Religiosity and the Numbers Game -- 3. The American ''Pie'': Considering the History of E Pluribus Unum -- Ingredients -- Recipe -- Move to America, Shake Well -- Serve Hot -- 4. The American ''Magna Carta'': Congress Shall Make No Law ... So Neither Should the Supreme Court -- Division of Labor -- Developments in the Revolution and Early Republic -- The Philosophy of Separationism -- Exploring the First Amendment -- 5. The American ''Orthodoxy'': Nonconformity among the Founders -- Freethinkers and ; Freethinking -- Deism -- Freemasonry -- 6. The American ''Irrationalism'': The Founders and the Reasonableness of Religion -- The Declaration of Irrationalism -- The Irrational Constitution -- A Utilitarian Faith? -- 7. The American ''Exemplars'': Founders Who Led by Example -- The Bit Players -- Benjamin Franklin -- George Washington -- John Adams -- Thomas Jefferson -- James Madison -- Alexander Hamilton -- 8. The American ''Duality'': The Art and Science of Equipoise -- Faith and Reason -- God and Mammon -- North and South -- Conservatism and Liberalism -- Conclusion: A Novus Ordo Seclorum? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.