America's religious wars : the embattled heart of our public life / / Kathleen M. Sands
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Sands Kathleen M.
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| Titolo: |
America's religious wars : the embattled heart of our public life / / Kathleen M. Sands
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| Pubblicazione: | New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019] |
| ©2019 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (347 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 970.980 |
| Soggetto topico: | Religion and politics - United States |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Religion History |
| United States Politics and government | |
| United States | |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Check Your Baggage Here -- Part I. Genealogies of Religion -- Part II. Religion against Religion -- Part III. The Religious against the Secular -- Conclusion: Heart Conditions -- Notes -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | How American conflicts about religion have always symbolized our foundational political values When Americans fight about "religion," we are also fighting about our conflicting identities, interests, and commitments. Religion-talk has been a ready vehicle for these conflicts because it is built on enduring contradictions within our core political values. The Constitution treats religion as something to be confined behind a wall, but in public communications, the Framers treated religion as the foundation of the American republic. Ever since, Americans have translated disagreements on many other issues into an endless debate about the role of religion in our public life. Built around a set of compelling narratives-George Washington's battle with Quaker pacifists; the fight of Mormons and Catholics for equality with Protestants; Teddy Roosevelt's concept of land versus the Lakota's concept; the creation-evolution controversy; and the struggle over sexuality-this book shows how religion, throughout American history, has symbolized, but never resolved, our deepest political questions. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | America's religious wars |
| ISBN: | 0-300-24537-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910793683503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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