Steven K Green

Inventing a Christian America

The Myth of the Religious Founding

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Produktbeschreibung

Steven K. Green explores the historical record that supports the popular belief about the nation's religious origins, seeking to explain how the ideas of America's religious founding and its status as a Christian nation became a leading narrative about the nation's collective identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780190675226
• ISBN-10: 0190675225
• Artikelnr.: 47868068

Autorenporträt

Steven K. Green is Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Religion, Law, and Democracy at Willamette University. He is the author of The Bible, the School, and the Constitution: The Clash that Shaped Modern Church-State Doctrine and The Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: The Christian Nation Debate, Methodological Fallacies, and the Role of Myths
Chapter 1: A Haven for Religious Freedom
Chapter 2: A Model for Christian and Civil Government
Chapter 3: The Revolutionary and Constitutional Impulse
Chapter 4: A Government of Men
Chapter 5: The Birth of a Myth
Conclusion
Index