This Earthly Frame: The Making of American Secularism - Hardcover

Sehat, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300244215 ISBN 13: 9780300244212

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

An award-winning scholar’s sweeping history of American secularism, from Jefferson to Trump
 
“Insights that are both illuminating and alarming.”―Linda Greenhouse, New York Review of Books
 
“An essential book for understanding today’s culture wars. Sehat’s clear-eyed and elegant narrative will change how you think about our supposedly secular age.”―Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 
In This Earthly Frame, David Sehat narrates the making of American secularism through its most prominent proponents and most significant detractors. He shows how its foundations were laid in the U.S. Constitution and how it fully emerged only in the twentieth century. Religious and nonreligious Jews, liberal Protestants, apocalyptic sects like the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and antireligious activists all used the courts and the constitutional language of the First Amendment to create the secular order. Then, over the past fifty years, many religious conservatives turned against that order, emphasizing their religious freedom.
 
Avoiding both polemic and lament, Sehat offers a powerful reinterpretation of American secularism and a clear framework for understanding the religiously infused conflict of the present.

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David Sehat is a professor of history at Georgia State University. He is the author of The Jefferson Rule and The Myth of American Religious Freedom, which was awarded the 2012 Frederick Jackson Turner Award. He lives in Atlanta, GA.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0300244215
• ISBN 13: 9780300244212
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
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