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Christianity and politics Christianity and politics United States History Evangelicalism Evangelicalism United States History Freedom of religion United States Progressivism (United States politics) Religion and politics United States History United States United States Church history United States History Religious aspects ChristianityLehmann, Chris
Summary: "A grand, brilliantly written work of American history We think we know the story of American religion: the Puritans were cold, austere, and pious, and Christianity continued pure and uncorrupted until the industrial revolution got in the way. InThe Money Cult, Chris Lehmann argues that we have it backwards: capitalism has always been entangled with religion, and so today's megapastors aren't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270 LEHMacHaffie, Barbara J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fortress Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270.08 MACMedved, Michael
Summary: In part two of bestselling author and national radio host Medved's sweeping historical narrative, this volume reveals moments of divine destiny in U.S. history from the civil war to modern day. In troubled times, Americans ponder whether God withdrawn his special blessing from the United States. Medved shows that astounding events have always reliably advanced America, restoring faith in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 277.3 MEDCharles, Mark
Summary: "You cannot discover lands already inhabited. In this prophetic blend of history, theology, and cultural commentary, Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah reveal the damaging effects of the "Doctrine of Discovery," which institutionalized American triumphalismand white supremacy. This book calls our nation and churches to a truth-telling that will expose past injustices and open the door to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.7 CHAMeacham, Jon.
Summary: Jon Meacham tells the human story of how the Founding Fathers viewed faith, and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter of choice. As Meacham shows, faith - meaning a belief in a higher power, and the sense that we are God's chosen people - has always been at the heart of our national experience, from Jamestown to the Constitutional Convention to the Civil Rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 322.1 MeaMeacham, Jon.
Summary: Author Meacham tells the human story of how the Founding Fathers viewed faith, and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter of choice. At a time when our country seems divided by extremism, this book draws on the past to offer a new perspective. Meacham re-creates the history of a nation grappling with religion and politics--from John Winthrop's "city on a hill"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.1 MEAKruse, Kevin Michael
Summary: "We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the idea of 'Christian America' is an invention--and a relatively recent one at that. As Kruse argues, the belief that America is fundamentally and formally a Christian nation originated in the 1930s when businessmen enlisted religious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KRUAlberta, Tim
Summary: For millions of conservative Christians, America is their kingdom--a land set apart, a nation uniquely blessed, a people in special covenant with God. This love of country, however, has given way to right-wing nationalist fervor, a reckless blood-and-soil idolatry that trivializes the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Alberta retraces the arc of the modern evangelical movement, placing political and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEKittelstrom, Amy
Summary: "Today we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation's founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side is said to be liberal. But the role of religion in American politics has always been far more nuanced and complex than today's debates would suggest and closer to the heart of American intellectual life than is commonly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KITWallis, Jim
Summary: ""Everyone who claims to be 'Christian' or else claims to be upset by 'Christianity' needs to read this book, especially politicians using people's supposed faith for their own ends."--Margaret E. Atwood. A major new work by the New York Times bestselling author, arguing that the answer to bad religion is true faith that will help re-found democracy It is time says Jim Wallis, to call out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2024
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Summary: "The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.6 BUTHall, Mark David
Summary: Many Americans have been taught a distorted, inaccurate account of our nation's founding, one that claims that the founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and that the country's founding political ideas developed without reference to Christianity. In this revelatory, rigorously argued new book, Mark David Hall thoroughly debunks that modern myth and shows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.1 HALHorowitz, David
Summary: Filled with stories that demonstrate the mind-numbing reasons behind the secular left's smug disdain for Christianity, Horowitz traces the history of religious liberty from the Founding Fathers to now. He shows how the Founding Fathers put aside their own skepticisms about God and religion to write The Declaration of Independence. Today, he writes Donald Trump's "genuine love for his country"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Humanix Books 2018
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Summary: "The founder and CEO of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and columnist forThe Atlantic describes how white Protestant Christians have declined in influence and power since the 1990s and explores the effect this has had on America,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 JONMassa, Mark Stephen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Pub. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.62 MASDershowitz, Alan M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.1097 DERLacorne, Denis.
Contents: America, the land of religious Utopias -- The rehabilitation of the Puritans -- Evangelical awakenings -- The Bible wars -- Religion, race, and national identity -- A Godless America -- The rise of the Christian right -- The wall of separation between church and state -- Epilogue: Obama's faith-friendly secularism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.7 LACFitzGerald, Frances
Summary: Initially a populist rebellion against the established Protestant churches, evagelicalism became the dominant religious force in the country before the Civil War, but the northerners and southerners split over the issue of slavery. After the Civil War, the northern evangelicals split, eventually causing a conflict between fundamentalists and modernists. Only after the second World War would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270 FITGallagher, Charles R.
Summary: "During WWII, a group of American Catholics openly embraced Nazism. Their armed wing, the Christian Front, stockpiled weapons for the revolution. Charles Gallagher unearths the history of these forgotten terrorists, the mainstream leaders who protected them, the powers who brought them down, and a society that has suppressed their memory"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 GALSeidel, Andrew L
Summary: In today’s contentious political climate, understanding religion’s role in American government is more important than ever. Christian nationalists assert that our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and advocate an agenda based on this popular historical claim. But is this belief true? The Founding Myth answers the question once and for all. Andrew L. Seidel, a constitutional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 277.307 SEIMcKibben, Bill
Summary: Bill McKibben--award-winning author, activist, educator--is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing--knowing--that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 MCKStoll, Mark
Summary: In Inherit the Holy Mountain, historian Mark Stoll introduces us to the religious roots of the American environmental movement. Religion, he shows, provided environmentalists both with deeply-embedded moral and cultural ways of viewing the world and with content, direction, and tone for the causes they espoused. Stoll discovers that specific denominational origins corresponded with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 260 STOShea, Suzanne Strempek.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 277.3 SHETurner, Matthew Paul
Summary: Describes how America changed the idea of God through an examination of the history of faith, politics, and Christian religions in America, from the Puritans to progressives and mega-churches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014