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Religion and American foreign policy, 1945-1960
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William Inboden |
"The Cold War was in many ways a religious war. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower and other American leaders believed that human rights and freedoms were endowed by God, that God had called the United… |
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Public education, America's civil religion
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Carl L. Bankston |
In this volume, the authors argue that public education is a central part of American civil religion and, thus, gives us an unquestioning faith in the capacity of education to solve all of our social… |
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Captain America and the crusade against evil
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John Shelton Lawrence,Robert Jewett |
"Arguing that the superhero is the antidemocratic counterpart of the classical "monomyth" described by Joseph Campbell, the authors show that the American version of the monomyth derives from tales o… |
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The tragedy of U.S. foreign policy
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Walter A. McDougall |
Pulitzer Prize--winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that "God is on our side" has inspired U.S. foreign policy ever since 1776. The f… |
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The faith of fifty million
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Christopher Hodge Evans,William R. Herzog |
Features essays by religion scholars who analyze the relation of baseball and theology in American culture. Topics include issues of national identity, baseball and civil religion, "saints and sinner… |
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Fiery Gospel
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Richard M. Gamble |
Since its composition in Washington's Willard Hotel in 1861, Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" has been used to make America and its wars sacred. Few Americans reflect on its violent an… |
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The New Communitarians and the Crisis of Modern Liberalism
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Bruce P. Frohnen |
This book critiques and challenges the rise of communitarian thought in America. With a skeptical eye, Bruce Frohnen seeks to cut through the communitarians' rhetoric of community, commitment, and sp… |
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The Bible and America
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Larry Braidfoot |
126 pages ; 20 cm |
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From Civil to Political Religion
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Marcela Cristi |
"Prompted by the shattering of the bonds between religion and the political order brought about by the Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau devised a "new" religion (civil religion) to be used by the… |
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