| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) |
| Contents |
Puritans and revolution: remembering the origin: religion and social critique in early New England / Wilson N. Brissett -- The early republic: Thomas Jefferson's philosophy of history and the future of American Christianity / Johann N. Neem -- The Romantic era: Emerson's churches of one / Matthew Mutter -- The Civil War: redeemer president and warrior prophet: Abraham Lincoln, William T. Sherman, and evangelical Protestantism / Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh -- After the Civil War: Auguste Comte's theory of history crosses the Atlantic / Andrew Witmer -- The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: mastery, modern doubt, and the costs of progress / Christopher McKnight Nichols -- World War I and after: godlessness and the Scopes trial / Kevin M. Schultz -- The thirties to the fifties: totalitarianism and the second American Enlightenment / David Ciepley -- The sixties: secularization and the prophesies of freedom / Slavica Jakelić -- The seventies and eighties: a reversal of fortunes / Joseph E. Davis and David Franz -- From 11/9/1989 to 9/11/2001 and beyond: the return of Jeremiad and the specter of secularization / Joshua J. Yates -- Conclusion: Prophesies, in retrospect and prospect / Christopher McKnight Nichols and Charles Mathewes |
| Summary |
Exploring the surprisingly similar expectations of religious and moral change voiced by major American thinkers, from the time of the Puritans to modern times, this book shows that there have been and continue to be patterns to these prophesies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Secularization -- United States
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Forecasting.
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Religion.
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Secularization.
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Religion.
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Philosophy & Religion.
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North & South American Religions.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Religion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140498
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United States -- Forecasting
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| Subject |
United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mathewes, Charles T., 1969-
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Nichols, Christopher McKnight.
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Oxford University Press
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| LC no. |
2007040444 |
| ISBN |
9780199867042 |
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0199867046 |
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