Christian nation? : the United States in popular perception and historical reality / / T. Adams Upchurch
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Upchurch Thomas Adams
|
| Titolo: |
Christian nation? : the United States in popular perception and historical reality / / T. Adams Upchurch
|
| Pubblicazione: | Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , c2010 |
| New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2023 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 322/.10973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Christianity and politics - United States - History |
| Christianity - United States - History | |
| Church and state - United States - History | |
| National characteristics, American | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Historiography |
| United States History Religious aspects Christianity | |
| United States Religion | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Christian nation |
| ISBN: | 979-84-00-62618-0 |
| 0-313-38643-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822480803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |