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Religion & Republic

Name: Religion & Republic
Author: Miles Smith

Christian American from the Founding to the Civil War

Miles Smith

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Davenant Press

Belletristik / Hauptwerk vor 1945

Beschreibung

In recent years, America's status as a "Christian nation" has become an incredibly vexed question. This is not simply a debate about America's present, or even its future-it has become a debate about its past. Some want to rewrite America's history as having always been highly secular in order to ensure a similar future; others seek to reframe the American founding as a continuation of medieval Christendom in the hopes of reviving America's religious identity today.

In this book, Miles Smith offers a fresh historical reading of America's status as a Christian nation in the Early Republic era. Defined neither by secularism nor Christendom, America was instead marked by "Christian institutionalism." Christianity-and Protestantism specifically-was always baked into the American republic's diplomatic, educational, judicial, and legislative regimes and institutional Christianity in state apparatuses coexisted comfortably with disestablishment from the American Revolution until the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Any productive discussion about America's religious present or future must first reckon accurately with its past. With close attention to a wide range of sermons, letters, laws, court cases and more, Religion & Republic offers just such a reckoning.

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