bokomslag Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America
Filosofi & religion

Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America

Timothy Verhoeven

Inbunden

1349:-

Funktionen begränsas av dina webbläsarinställningar (t.ex. privat läge).

Uppskattad leveranstid 7-12 arbetsdagar

Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249:-

  • 286 sidor
  • 2019
This book shows how, through a series of fierce battles over Sabbath laws, legislative chaplains, Bible-reading in public schools and other flashpoints, nineteenth-century secularists mounted a powerful case for a separation of religion and government. Among their diverse ranks were religious skeptics, liberal Protestants, members of minority faiths, labor reformers and defenders of slavery. Drawing on popular petitions to Congress, a neglected historical source, the book explores how this secularist mobilization gathered energy at the grassroots level. The nineteenth century is usually seen as the golden age of an informal Protestant establishment. Timothy Verhoeven demonstrates that, far from being crushed by an evangelical juggernaut, secularists harnessed a range of cultural forcesthe legacy of the Revolutionary founders, hostility to Catholicism, a belief in national exceptionalism and moreto argue that the United States was not a Christian nation, branding their opponents as fanatics who threatened both democratic liberties as well as true religion.
  • Författare: Timothy Verhoeven
  • Illustratör: Bibliographie 4 schwarz-weiße und 3 farbige Abbildungen
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9783030028763
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 286
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-01-03
  • Förlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG