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Prodigal nation : moral decline and divine punishment from New England to 9/11 / Andrew R. Murphy.
LIBRA BR517 .M87 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, Andrew R., 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jeremiads--United States--History and criticism.
- Jeremiads.
- Christianity and politics--United States--History.
- Christianity and politics.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 232 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- The American jeremiad
- Puritan New England and the foundations of the American jeremiad
- Decline, slavery, and war : the jeremiad in antebellum and Civil War America
- Taking America back : the Christian right jeremiad
- Competing jeremiads
- Constructing a usable past
- The jeremiad and the culture wars
- The past, present, and future of the American jeremiad.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195321289
- 0195321286
- OCLC:
- 221155181
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