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Title Religion and American politics : from the colonial period to the 1980s / edited by Mark A. Noll
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 401 pages)
Contents Introduction / Mark A. Noll -- Religion and politics in America from the first settlements to the Civil War / John M. Murrin -- Religion and ideological change in the American Revolution / Ruth H. Bloch -- Rhetoric and reality in the early Republic: the case of the Federalist clergy / Harry S. Stout -- Religion, government, and power in the new American nation / John F. Wilson -- The Democratization of Christianity and the character of American politics / Nathan O. Hatch -- Religion and politics in the antebellum north / Daniel Walker Howe -- Ethnoreligious political behavior in the mid-nineteenth century: voting, values, culture / Robert P. Swierenga -- Religion and the "civilizing process" in the early American South, 1600-1800 / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- Beyond commonality and plurality: persistent racial polarity in American religion and politics / David W. Wills -- Religion and politics in nineteenth-century Britain: the case against American exceptionalism / Richard Carwardine -- Politics, religion, and the Candian experience: a preliminary probe / George A. Rawlyk -- Protestant theological tensions and political styles in the progressive period / Robert T. Handy -- Roman Catholics and American politics, 1900-1960: altered circumstances, continuing patterns / James Hennesey, S.J. -- The twentieth century: Protestants and others / Martin E. Marty -- Quid obscurum: the changing terrain of church-state relations / Robert Wuthnow -- Religion, voting for President, and party identification, 1948-1984 / Lyman A. Kellstedt and Mark A. Noll -- Afterword: religion, politics, and the search for an American consensus / George M. Marsden
Summary In this collection of previously unpublished essays, seventeen leading scholars examine the relation between politics and religion in America before and after the Civil War. The essays examine how religious beliefs and practices have shaped political thought and behaviour (and vice versa), and how in certain periods religious and political thought has coincided or moved in opposition, and how minority perspectives have challenged majority views. Amongst the distinguished contributors are: John Murrin, Harry Stout, John F. Wilson, Daniel Walker Howe, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Robert Swierenga, Martin Marty, Robert Wuthnow, and George Marsden
Analysis Politics Related to Religion History
United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Church and state -- United States -- History
Christianity and politics -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
Christianity and politics
Church and state
Politics and government
Religion
Innenpolitik
Religion
Geschichte
Aufsatzsammlung
Politik
Kerk en staat.
Église et État -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
Christianisme et politique -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
SUBJECT United States -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140498
United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
Subject United States
USA
États-Unis -- Histoire religieuse.
États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Noll, Mark A., 1946-
ISBN 9780199729326
0199729328
1280523980
9781280523984