LEADER 04328nam 22006615 450 001 9910809426703321 005 20230808205315.0 010 $a1-4798-2373-2 024 7 $a10.18574/9781479823734 035 $a(CKB)4330000000011975 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001681492 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16507059 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001681492 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14928337 035 $a(PQKB)11354190 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4045240 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001597622 035 $a(OCoLC)952108500 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51729 035 $a(DE-B1597)547461 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781479823734 035 $a(EXLCZ)994330000000011975 100 $a20200723h20162016 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Production of American Religious Freedom /$fFinbarr Curtis 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (220 pages) 225 0 $aNorth American Religions ;$v7 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-4798-8211-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. You, and You, and You: Charles Grandison Finney and Democracy --$t2. I?m Not Myself To-night. I Owe Money: Louisa May Alcott and Salvation --$t3. Sentiment Rules the World: William Jennings Bryan and Populism --$t4. The Helpless White Minority: D. W. Griffith and Violence --$t5. The Fundamental Faith of Every True American: Al Smith and Loyalty --$t6. Do You Hate Me? Malcolm X and the Truth --$t7. Science in a Little Box: Intelligent Design and Secularity --$t8. The Most Sacred of All Property: Corporations and Persons --$tEpilogue: You, and You, and You --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aAmericans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either ?religion? or ?freedom.? Rather than resolve these debates, Finbarr Curtis argues that there is no such thing as religious freedom. Lacking any consistent content, religious freedom is a shifting and malleable rhetoric employed for a variety of purposes. While Americans often think of freedom as the right to be left alone, the free exercise of religion works to produce, challenge, distribute, and regulate different forms of social power. The book traces shifts in the notion of religious freedom in America from The Second Great Awakening, to the fiction of Louisa May Alcott and the films of D.W. Griffith, through William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes Trial, and up to debates over the Tea Party to illuminate how Protestants have imagined individual and national forms of identity. A chapter on Al Smith considers how the first Catholic presidential nominee of a major party challenged Protestant views about the separation of church and state. Moving later in the twentieth century, the book analyzes Malcolm X?s more sweeping rejection of Christian freedom in favor of radical forms of revolutionary change. The final chapters examine how contemporary controversies over intelligent design and the claims of corporations to exercise religion are at the forefront of efforts to shift regulatory power away from the state and toward private institutions like families, churches, and corporations. The volume argues that religious freedom is produced within competing visions of governance in a self-governing nation. 410 0$aNorth American religions. 606 $aBranding (Marketing)$zUnited States 606 $aSelling 606 $aLiberty 606 $aReligion and sociology$zUnited States 606 $aFreedom of religion$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xChurch history 615 0$aBranding (Marketing) 615 0$aSelling. 615 0$aLiberty. 615 0$aReligion and sociology 615 0$aFreedom of religion 676 $a323.4420973 700 $aCurtis$b Finbarr$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01612413 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809426703321 996 $aThe Production of American Religious Freedom$93941178 997 $aUNINA