Religion in American politics : a short history / Frank Lambert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lambert, Frank, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and politics--United States.

Christianity and politics.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 294 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2008]

Contents:

Providential and secular America : founding the republic

Elusive Protestant unity : Sunday mails, Catholic immigration, and sectional division

The "gospel of wealth" and the "social gospel" : industrialization and the rise of corporate America

Faith and science : the modernist-fundamentalist controversy

Religious and political liberalism : the rise of big government from the New Deal to the Cold War

Civil rights as a religious movement : politics in the streets

The rise of the "religious right" : the Reagan revolution and the "Moral Majority"

Reemergence of the "religious left"? : America's culture war in the early twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index.

ISBN:

9780691128337

0691128332

OCLC:

145941617