The Routledge History of Religion and Politics in the United States Since 1775.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burnidge, Cara Lea.

Contributor:

Turek, Lauren Frances.

Series:

Routledge Histories Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and politics--United States--History.

Religion and politics.

Religion and state--United States--History.

Religion and state.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

United States--Religious life and customs.

United States--Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (818 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Summary:

Drawing together history and recent historiography, this volume offers a reference work for understanding how religion influenced politics and how politics shaped religion in the United States from the American Revolution through the present day.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Organization

Strategies for Reading

Notes

Part I: Major Conceptual Themes

Chapter 1: Religion and the State

Chapter 2: Pluralism and Secularism

Four Maxims about Secular Pluralism

Secular Pluralism Is a Cultural Project Rather than a Legal Framework

Secularism Is Neither the Absence of Religion nor Opposition to Religion in General

Secular Pluralism Is a Configuration of Religion

Secularism Is a Foundation - Not a Subset - of Pluralism

Conclusion: Post-Secularism and the Future of Pluralism

Works Cited

Chapter 3: Capitalism, Religion, and Politics

Chapter 4: Religion and Foreign Relations

Chapter 5: Material Culture, Material Religion, and Politics

Chapter 6: Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism

The Critical Study of Race: From Race to Racialization

1992: Race's 500-Year Origin in Religion

The War on Terror and the Racialization of Religion

The Re-Emergence of White Christian Nationalism

U.S. Settler Colonialism

Conclusion: A Definition of Racism for the Contemporary Era

Chapter 7: Gender, Religion, and Politics

Marriage

Pushing Back: Cracks in the System

In Our Bones?

Part II: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 8: Religion and Imperial Networks

The Anatomy of British Protestantism

Protestant Support for the Imperial Policies

Chapter 9: Indigenous Politics and Religious Traditions Within the Early United States

Politics and Indigenous Religious Traditions

Revitalization

Missions and Christianity

Conclusion

Notes.

Chapter 10: Religion, Politics, and Geography in British America's Northeastern Borderlands

Chapter 11: Slavery and Religion

African American Antislavery Petitions

Expanding Antislavery Christianity

Proslavery Christianity and African American Religions

Endings and Beginnings

Chapter 12: The Barbary Wars

The American Captives in Algiers

The American Response

The Crisis Deepens

American Perceptions of Their Muslim Enemy

The Tripolitan War, 1801-1805

The Algerine War, 1815

The Barbary Wars as a Holy War?

Chapter 13: Electoral Politics in the New Nation

Religion in Jeffersonian Politics, 1800-1830

Religion in Jacksonian Politics, 1830-1850

Historiography

Chapter 14: Evangelical Proliferation and Power in the Early Republic

Proliferation

Power

Conclusion: Appraisals and a "Christian Nation" Realized

Chapter 15: Gender and Republican Motherhood

Chapter 16: Mormonism in Antebellum America

Origins

Mobocracy

Nauvoo

Legacies

Part III: The Civil War and Reconstruction

Chapter 17: Religion and Abolitionism

Chapter 18: Sectional Crisis and Denominational Schisms

Chapter 19: The Omnipotence of Abraham Lincoln

Chapter 20: "We Want Rights"1: Religion, Suffrage, Race, and Gender During the Civil War and the Reconstruction

Antebellum Period

Civil War (1861-1865)

Reconstruction

Chapter 21: Indigenous Revivalism and the Indian Wars

The Modoc War

The Nez Perce War

Part IV: The Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Chapter 22: Antisemitism, Anti-Catholicism, and Nativism in the Long Nineteenth Century

I

II

Chapter 23: Industrial Capitalism and the Gospel of Wealth.

The Roots of Industrial Disharmony

The Reign of Disharmony

Other Gospels of Wealth

Chapter 24: Social Gospel, Christian Socialism, and Progressive Reform

Chapter 25: Old Time Religious Revivalism, Technology, and Media

Revivalism and the Body

Printing the Revival

Conclusion: Technology and Time

Chapter 26: Overseas Missionaries, Humanitarianism, and U.S. Diplomacy

American Overseas Missionaries

Race and Belonging

Diplomacy

Humanitarian Intervention

Chapter 27: Duty and Destiny: Religion, the Spanish-American War, and American Empire

Nationalism and America's Religious Culture in 1898

Religion and the Road to War

Christianity and Empire

Chapter 28: The Second KKK and Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Violence

Chapter 29: Humanitarianism Between the World Wars

Conclusion and Future Questions

Part V: The Mid-to-Late Twentieth Century

Chapter 30: World War II

Chapter 31: Anticommunism at Home and Abroad

Red Scares and American Religions

Varieties of Interfaith Anticommunism

Anticommunism and the Culture Wars

Red Scares Forever

Chapter 32: Religion and National Security in the Early Cold War

Religion and National Security in the American Imagination

Religion and National Security Abroad

Religion and National Security At Home

Chapter 33: "Chosen as the Leader or Spokesperson": Fannie Lou Hamer as Religious Leader and Intellectual in the Black Freedom Movement

Brief Biography of Mrs. Hamer

The Centrality of Religious Women's Leadership in Black Freedom Rights Activism and Media

Scripture as Black Freedom Text

State Violence and Religious Actors

The Work Continues Post-1964 DNC

Chapter 34: Cold War Feminism and Antifeminism: Gender Politics and Interreligious Coalitions

Motherhood, Moral Guardianship, and Cold War Conservatism

The Political Is Personal and Ecumenical: Feminism and Interreligious Networking

The Cold War Body Politic: Religion, Sexuality, and Reproductive Politics

Chapter 35: LGBTQ+ Rights

Finding the Religious in the Queer

Probing the Opposition

Chapter 36: Culture Wars and the Supreme Court During the Cold War

Separating Church and State

The Challenge of Civil Rights

Roe v. Wade and the Culture Wars

Chapter 37: Immigration and Asian American Religions

How Religious Figures and Organizations Facilitated Migration

Religion and Anticommunist Politics

Religion and Pro-democracy Movements During the Cold War

Chapter 38: Religion, Politics, and Policymaking in the Reagan Years

Part VI: The Early Twenty-First Century

Chapter 39: Evangelicals and Environmentalism

Chapter 40: Latinx Religions and American Politics: Cold War Through Trump Presidency

Before the Cold War: Citizenship, Americanization, and Immigration

The Cold War: Local Civic Engagement and New Immigrant Populations

Immigration Unresolved and Entry into Electoral Politics

Toward the Mid-twenty-first Century

Chapter 41: Secularism, Nones, and Interfaith Communities

Chapter 42: Islam, Islamophobia, and American Muslims

Twentieth-Century Muslim Communities in the United States: Growth, Visibility, Surveillance

Cold War Politics

US Muslims in Multicultural America (1970s-1990s)

9/11, the War On Terror, and Responses to Structural Islamophobia

The Muslim Ban, Culture Wars, and Social Justice

Chapter 43: Clergy Sexual Abuse

How Catholic Survivors Transformed the National Discourse

Major Legal Changes

Moral Discourse and the Media Spotlight

Expanding the Spotlight

Conclusion: Reimagining Justice for American Survivors

Chapter 44: Conspiracy, Disinformation, and Media

Conspiracy Theory as Discourse and Narrative Strategy

Disinformation and the Weaponization of Counter-Narrative

Webs of Confusion: Conspiracy, Disinformation, the Internet, and Social Media

QAnon: A "Master Conspiracy Theory"?

Conclusion: Conspiracies, "Cults," and Counter-Discourses

Index.

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ISBN:

9781040255230

104025523X

9781003299721

1003299725

9781040255216

1040255213

OCLC:

1477223327