This earthly frame : the making of American secularism / David Sehat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sehat, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Secularism--United States--History.

Secularism.

Religion and politics.

Religion and law.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"In This Earthly Frame, David Sehat narrates the making of American secularism through its most prominent proponents and most significant detractors. He shows how its foundations were laid in the U.S. Constitution and how it fully emerged only in the twentieth century. Religious and nonreligious Jews, liberal Protestants, apocalyptic sects like the Jehovah's Witnesses, and antireligious activists all used the courts and the constitutional language of the First Amendment to create the secular order. Then, over the past fifty years, many religious conservatives turned against that order, emphasizing their religious freedom. Avoiding both polemic and lament, Sehat offers a powerful reinterpretation of American secularism and a clear framework for understanding the religiously infused conflict of the present."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part One. Foundations

1. An Enlightenment Settlement

2. The Sociology of Law

3. Piers of American Secularism

Part Two. Structures

4. The Difficulties of Diversity

5. Stumbling toward Secularism

6. Religion Is Personal

7. The Death of God

Part Three. Instabilities

8. The Personal Is Political

9. Religious Freedom

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780300265620

OCLC:

1291318008