| Description |
xiii, 250 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Puritans and revolution: remembering the origin: religion and social critique in early New England / Wilson N. Brissett -- The early republic: Thomas Jefferson's philosophy of history and the future of American Christianity / Johann N. Neem -- The Romantic era: Emerson's churches of one / Matthew Mutter -- The Civil War: redeemer president and warrior prophet: Abraham Lincoln, William T. Sherman, and evangelical Protestantism / Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh -- After the Civil War: Auguste Comte's theory of history crosses the Atlantic / Andrew Witmer -- The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: mastery, modern doubt, and the costs of progress / Christopher McKnight Nichols -- World War I and after: godlessness and the Scopes trial / Kevin M. Schultz -- The thirties to the fifties: totalitarianism and the second American Enlightenment / David Ciepley -- The sixties: secularization and the prophesies of freedom / Slavica Jakelić -- The seventies and eighties: a reversal of fortunes / Joseph E. Davis and David Franz -- From 11/9/1989 to 9/11/2001 and beyond: the return of Jeremiad and the specter of secularization / Joshua J. Yates -- Conclusion: Prophesies, in retrospect and prospect / Christopher McKnight Nichols and Charles Mathewes. |
| Subject |
United States -- Religion.
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Secularization -- United States.
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United States -- Forecasting.
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Forecasting. (OCoLC)fst00931721
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Religion. (OCoLC)fst01093763
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Secularization. (OCoLC)fst01110738
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Säkularisierung.
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United States.
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| Added Author |
Mathewes, Charles T., 1969-
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Nichols, Christopher McKnight.
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| ISBN |
9780195342536 cloth |
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0195342534 cloth |
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9780195342543 paperback |
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0195342542 paperback |
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