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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 TITLEFitzGerald, 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 FITMeacham, 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 MEASchenck, Robert L.
Summary: The author recalls his life as a controversial Washington, D.C. evangelical minister and spiritual advisor to America's political class. He begins with his conversion from Judaism to born-again Christianity, and then finding his calling in public ministry. He chronicles his years as an activist leader of the most extreme wing of the anti-abortion movement, brazenly mixing ministry with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHENCK, ROBERT SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SCHENCK SCHShorris, Earl
Summary: A account of the events, ideas, and beliefs about the role of religion in today's government discusses how, after the September 11th attacks, there is a more glaring pervasiveness of religious doctrine throughout both major parties and in the formulating of key political decisions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton & Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 SHOKittelstrom, 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 KITSeidel, 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 SEIKruse, 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 KRUPosner, Sarah
Summary: "Why did so many Evangelicals turn out to vote for Donald Trump, a serial philanderer with questionable conservative credentials who seems to defy Christian values with his every utterance? To a reporter like Sarah Posner, who has been covering the religious right for decades, the answer turns out to be far more intuitive than one might think. In this taut and meticulously reported inquiry,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 POSMcCammon, Sarah
Summary: A work of memoir and investigative journalism on the exvangelical movement: its origins; stories of its members; and massive social, cultural and political impact.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: President Carter has written importantly about his spiritual life and faith. In this book, he offers a personal consideration of "moral values" as they relate to the important issues of the day. He puts forward a passionate defense of separation of church and state, and a strong warning of where the country is heading as the lines between politics and rigid religious fundamentalism are blurred....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 CARSpencer, Kyle
Summary: "Using original reporting and unprecedented access, an award-winning journalist chronicles the people and organizations working to lure millions of unsuspecting young American voters into the far-right fold, harnessing social media in alarming ways and capitalizing on the democratization of celebrity culture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.50973 SPEHall, 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 HALMansfield, Stephen
Summary: The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump exposed a deep divide in American politics and culture, one that pollsters and pundits didn't seem to realize was there. But Trump did, and he used it to his advantage in ways that surprised nearly everyone, even those who voted for him. Perhaps the biggest question on many people's minds is how, exactly, did a crass, unrepentant reality TV star and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 260 MANHorowitz, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322 HORHowe, Ben
Summary: Offers the history of the Christian Right and analyzes the rhetoric evangelical leaders use to convince Christians to stay with the Republican Party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.0973 HOWPhelps-Roper, Megan
Summary: The activist and TED speaker Phelps-Roper reveals her life growing up in the most hated family in America. Rich with suspense and thoughtful reflection, her life story exposes the dangers of black-and-white thinking and the need for true humility in a time of angry polarization. At the age of five, Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHELPS-ROPER, MEGAN PHEGoeglein, Timothy S.
Summary: Discusses how President George W. Bush's decisions were made for the greater good, and how many of them could serve as a blueprint for a more thoughtful, confident conservatism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BH Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUSH, GEORGE W GOEWildman, Terry M.
Summary: Terry Wildman writes of a justice long-denied, not only for Native peoples who have suffered the loss of lands, livelihood, and life as the American empire spread across the continent, but also for those who struggle for life and liberty to this very day. Like the prophets of Israel, he seeks to correct our eyesight-to set before us God's vision and God's truth and to expose things that we, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Great Thunder Publishing 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 WILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 WILDershowitz, 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 DERCarter, Jimmy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.0973 CARCharles, 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 CHALacorne, 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