God and the Atlantic : America, Europe, and the religious divide / Thomas Albert Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howard, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert), 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Church history--19th century.

Europe.

United States--Church history--19th century.

United States.

Europe--Church history--20th century.

United States--Church history--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is work of cultural and intellectual history devoted to the subject of the transatlantic religious divide. Using 19th and early 20th century commentary on the subject, Howard helps us understand why Americans have maintained much friendlier ties with traditional forms of religion than their European counterparts.

Contents:

Table of Contents; 1. Introduction; The Presence of the Past; Beyond Tocqueville; Right, Left, and Master Narratives; The Historian and the Philosopher: Philip Schaff and Jacques Maritain; 2. The Traditionalist Critique: A "Ranting and Raving Tumult"; Introduction; Sophisticates Abroad: The Anglican Visitation to American Democracy; A Land without "Spirit": German Thought, Religion and America; "Indifferentism" and "Americanism": Embattled Catholicism and the American Experiment; 3. The Secularist Critique: "A Certain Backwardness of Thought"; Introduction

America and Early French Social Thought: From Condorcet to ComteHegel, Marx, Religion, and America; The Spirit of 1848: Republican Anticlericalism and America; The "Secularization" Ethos and the Spirit of European History; 4. Philip Schaff: Herr Doktor Professor in the American Frontier; Introduction; Young Man Schaff and America's "Deplorable Confusion"; A Changing Outlook; Schaff 's America; 5. Jacques Maritain: A French Thomist and the New World; Introduction; America, the French Prism, and the Young Maritain; Maritain, Modernity, and a New Humanism

Novus Ordo Seclorum and the Angelic Doctor6. Conclusion: The Double Helix and the Dialectic; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-162483-7

0-19-967130-3

9786613303134

1-283-30313-2

0-19-161276-6

OCLC:

922970544