03584nam 2200529 450 991045214730332120200520144314.01-280-52398-00-19-972932-81-4237-6384-X(CKB)1000000000460557(EBL)272578(OCoLC)870243567(MiAaPQ)EBC272578(Au-PeEL)EBL272578(CaPaEBR)ebr11303244(CaONFJC)MIL52398(EXLCZ)99100000000046055720161205h19901990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierReligion and American politics from the colonial period to the 1980s /edited by Mark A. NollNew York, New York ;Oxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,1990.©19901 online resource (416 p.)Includes index.0-19-505881-X Contents; Contributors; Introduction; BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR; 1. Religion and Politics in America from the First Settlements to the Civil War; 2. Religion and Ideological Change in the American Revolution; 3. Rhetoric and Reality in the Early Republic: The Case of the Federalist Clergy; 4. Religion, Government, and Power in the New American Nation; 5. The Democratization of Christianity and the Character of American Politics; 6. Religion and Politics in the Antebellum North; 7. Ethnoreligious Political Behavior in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Voting, Values, Cultures8. Religion and the ""Civilizing Process"" in the Early American South, 1600-1860COMPARATIVE THEMES; 9. Beyond Commonality and Plurality: Persistent Racial Polarity in American Religion and Politics; 10. Religion and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Case Against American Exceptionalism; 11. Politics, Religion, and the Canadian Experience: A Preliminary Probe; THE MODERN PERIOD; 12. Protestant Theological Tensions and Political Styles in the Progressive Period; 13. Roman Catholics and American Politics, 1900-1960: Altered Circumstances, Continuing Patterns14. The Twentieth Century: Protestants and Others15. Quid Obscurum: The Changing Terrain of Church-State Relations; 16. Religion, Voting for President, and Party Identification, 1948-1984; 17. Afterword: Religion, Politics, and the Search for an American Consensus; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; YHow do religion and politics interact in America? Why is it that at certain periods in American history, religious and political thought have followed a parallel course while at other times they have moved in entirely different directions? To what extent have minority perspectives challengedthe majority position on the religious and political issues that impinge on each other? These are among the many important and fascinating questions examined in this book, the first thorough historical survey of the multi-layered connections between religion and politics in the United States.This uniqueChristianity and politicsUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesChurch historyElectronic books.Christianity and politicsHistory.322.10973Noll Mark A.1946-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452147303321Religion and American politics2009239UNINA