The Surge of Piety in America
Title | The Surge of Piety in America PDF eBook |
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Release | 1958 |
Genre | United States |
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The Surge of Piety in America
Title | The Surge of Piety in America PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Roy Eckardt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Christian life |
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The Surge of Piety in America
Title | The Surge of Piety in America PDF eBook |
Author | A. Roy Eckardt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2013-10 |
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ISBN | 9781494038854 |
This is a new release of the original 1958 edition.
Surge of Piety
Title | Surge of Piety PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Lane |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2016-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 030022527X |
The dramatic, untold story of how Norman Vincent Peale and a handful of conservative allies fueled the massive rise of religiosity in the United States during the 1950s Near the height of Cold War hysteria, when the threat of all-out nuclear war felt real and perilous, Presbyterian minister Norman Vincent Peale published The Power of Positive Thinking. Selling millions of copies worldwide, the book offered a gospel of self-assurance in an age of mass anxiety. Despite Peale’s success and his ties to powerful conservatives such as Dwight D. Eisenhower, J. Edgar Hoover, and Joseph McCarthy, the full story of his movement has never been told. Christopher Lane shows how the famed minister’s brand of Christian psychology inflamed the nation’s religious revival by promoting the concept that belief in God was essential to the health and harmony of all Americans. We learn in vivid detail how Peale and his powerful supporters orchestrated major changes in a nation newly defined as living “under God.” This blurring of the lines between religion and medicine would reshape religion as we know it in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Imagining Judeo-Christian America
Title | Imagining Judeo-Christian America PDF eBook |
Author | K. Healan Gaston |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2019-11-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022666385X |
“Judeo-Christian” is a remarkably easy term to look right through. Judaism and Christianity obviously share tenets, texts, and beliefs that have strongly influenced American democracy. In this ambitious book, however, K. Healan Gaston challenges the myth of a monolithic Judeo-Christian America. She demonstrates that the idea is not only a recent and deliberate construct, but also a potentially dangerous one. From the time of its widespread adoption in the 1930s, the ostensible inclusiveness of Judeo-Christian terminology concealed efforts to promote particular conceptions of religion, secularism, and politics. Gaston also shows that this new language, originally rooted in arguments over the nature of democracy that intensified in the early Cold War years, later became a marker in the culture wars that continue today. She argues that the debate on what constituted Judeo-Christian—and American—identity has shaped the country’s religious and political culture much more extensively than previously recognized.
A Religious History of the American People
Title | A Religious History of the American People PDF eBook |
Author | Sydney E. Ahlstrom |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 1220 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780300100129 |
This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion and Christian Century's choice as the Religious Book of the Decade (1979), is now issued with a new chapter by noted religious historian David Hall, who carries the story of American religious history forward to the present day. Praise for the earlier edition: ?An unusual and praiseworthy book. . . . It takes a modern, almost anthropological view of history, in which worship is a part of a web of culture along with play, love, dress, and language.”?B.A. Weisberger, Washington Post Book World ?The most detailed, most polished of the works in its tradition.”?Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review ?An intellectual delight that one does not so much read as savor.”?America ?The definitive one-volume study by the leading authority.”?Christianity Today ?No one writing or thinking hereafter about America's past will be able to ignore Ahlstrom's magisterial account of the religious element.”?American Historical Review
Critical Issues in American Religious History
Title | Critical Issues in American Religious History PDF eBook |
Author | Robert R. Mathisen |
Publisher | Baylor University Press |
Pages | 821 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN | 1932792392 |
Americans as a religious people experience both tension and indecision as they wrestle with a variety of critical issues every day. American society continually struggles with its religious past. The primary and secondary materials included in this volume track religious America's efforts to articulate its identity and destiny and implement its religious creeds and ideals in an ever-changing society.