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Religion and American politics : from the colonial period to the 1980s / edited by Mark A. Noll.
In this collection of previously unpublished essays, seventeen leading scholars examine the relation between politics and religion in America before and after the Civil War. The essays examine how religious beliefs and practices have shaped political thought and behaviour (and vice versa), and how in certain periods religious and political thought has coincided or moved in opposition, and how minority perspectives have challenged majority views. Amongst the distinguished contributors are: John Murrin, Harry Stout, John F. Wilson, Daniel Walker Howe, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Robert Swierenga, Martin Marty, Robert Wuthnow, and George Marsden.
Record details
- ISBN: 0199729328
- ISBN: 1280523980
- ISBN: 9780199729326
- ISBN: 9781280523984
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 401 pages)
- Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:august.19 Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / Mark A. Noll -- Religion and politics in America from the first settlements to the Civil War / John M. Murrin -- Religion and ideological change in the American Revolution / Ruth H. Bloch -- Rhetoric and reality in the early Republic: the case of the Federalist clergy / Harry S. Stout -- Religion, government, and power in the new American nation / John F. Wilson -- The Democratization of Christianity and the character of American politics / Nathan O. Hatch -- Religion and politics in the antebellum north / Daniel Walker Howe -- Ethnoreligious political behavior in the mid-nineteenth century: voting, values, culture / Robert P. Swierenga -- Religion and the "civilizing process" in the early American South, 1600-1800 / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- Beyond commonality and plurality: persistent racial polarity in American religion and politics / David W. Wills -- Religion and politics in nineteenth-century Britain: the case against American exceptionalism / Richard Carwardine -- Politics, religion, and the Candian experience: a preliminary probe / George A. Rawlyk -- Protestant theological tensions and political styles in the progressive period / Robert T. Handy -- Roman Catholics and American politics, 1900-1960: altered circumstances, continuing patterns / James Hennesey, S.J. -- The twentieth century: Protestants and others / Martin E. Marty -- Quid obscurum: the changing terrain of church-state relations / Robert Wuthnow -- Religion, voting for President, and party identification, 1948-1984 / Lyman A. Kellstedt and Mark A. Noll -- Afterword: religion, politics, and the search for an American consensus / George M. Marsden. |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
| Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by EBSCO. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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