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200 10$aAmerican covenant $ea history of civil religion from the Puritans to the present /$fPhilip Gorski ; with a new preface by the author
205   $aFirst paperback printing with a new preface by the author.
210  1$aPrinceton, New Jersey :$cPrinceton University Press,$d2019.
215   $a1 online resource (xxiii, 320 pages) $cillustrations
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface to the Paperback Edition --$tPreface: Three Trips to Philadelphia --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. Prophetic Republicanism as Vital Center --$tChapter 1. The Civil Religious Tradition and Its Rivals --$tChapter 2. The Hebraic Moment: The New England Puritans --$tChapter 3. Hebraic Republicanism: The American Revolution --$tChapter 4. Democratic Republicanism: The Civil War --$tChapter 5. The Progressive Era: Empire and the Republic --$tChapter 6. The Post-World War II Period: Jew, Protestant, Catholic --$tChapter 7. From Reagan to Obama: Tradition Corrupted and (Almost) Recovered --$tChapter 8. The Civil Religion: Critics and Allies --$tConclusion. The Righteous Republic --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex
330   $aThe long battle between exclusionary and inclusive versions of the American storyWas America founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither, argues Philip Gorski in American Covenant. What the founders envisioned was a prophetic republic that would weave together the ethical vision of the Hebrew prophets and the Western political heritage of civic republicanism. In this eye-opening book, Gorski shows why this civil religious tradition is now in peril-and with it the American experiment.American Covenant traces the history of prophetic republicanism from the Puritan era to today, providing insightful portraits of figures ranging from John Winthrop and W.E.B. Du Bois to Jerry Falwell, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama. Featuring a new preface by the author, this incisive book demonstrates how half a century of culture war has drowned out the quieter voices of the vital center, and demonstrates that if we are to rebuild that center, we must recover the civil religious tradition on which the republic was founded.
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610   $aApocalypticism.
610   $aAristocracy.
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610   $aBarack Obama.
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610   $aCotton Mather.
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610   $aIdolatry.
610   $aImperialism.
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610   $aInstitution.
610   $aJane Addams.
610   $aJeremiad.
610   $aJerry Falwell.
610   $aJews.
610   $aJohn Courtney Murray.
610   $aJohn Locke.
610   $aJohn Winthrop.
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