From State Church to Pluralism: A Protestant Interpretation of Religion in American History

ISBN-13: 9780202309217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 192 str.

Franklin Hamlin Littell

Opis

For most of our history, American religious life has been dominated by a view of church history in which we appear as mere deposits of European religious culture. In fact, however, the freedom of Americans to choose without penalty to join any religious body or none at all is new in human history. This book is an effort to understand and interpret how we arrived at our present situation and, in doing so, to clarify many cultural, social and political issues.

Spis treści

I: The Colonial State Churches; II: The Mew Nation; III: The Civil War and Aftermath; IV: American Religion at Floodtide; V: Mid-Century Encounter

O autorze

Franklin Littell