Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
Title | Religion and the Founding of the American Republic PDF eBook |
Author | James H. Hutson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
A balanced and lively look at the role of religion between colonization and the 1840s.
Godly Republic
Title | Godly Republic PDF eBook |
Author | John J. DiIulio |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0520258002 |
"Do you know if you are going to heaven?" -- Saved in South Jersey -- Just ask pops -- What would Madison and Franklin do? -- The founders' faithful consensus -- Myths 1 and 2 : a godly republic, not a secular state or a Christian nation --One nation, under God, for all -- A warm civic welcome, not a high legal wall -- Between Jefferson and Witherspoon : Madison -- Madison's multiplicity of sects versus the anti-federalists -- Most blessed compromise : the Bill of Rights -- Neo-anti-federalists versus judicial tyranny -- The court's neutrality doctrine -- Myths 3 and 4 : equal protection -- Blessings in the balance -- Strict separation doctrine's anti-Catholic roots -- Lemon aid stands : religion and education -- Free exercise versus indirect establishment -- Blame the founders, the anti-federalists, and the people -- The people's charitable choice -- Myths 5 and 6 : religious pluralists, not strict secularists or religious purists -- Bipartisan beliefs -- Purple people on church-state -- Turning red over religion? -- Two electoral extremes equal one-third -- Proxy government gets religion, 1996-2000 -- No Bush versus Gore on "faith-based" -- The president's bipartisan prayer -- Faith-based without works is dead -- Three steps on the road not taken -- Neutrality challenges : the Bush faith bill -- Believers only need apply? -- Religious voucher visions -- Hope in the semi-seen : Amachi -- The nation's spiritual capital -- Myths 7 and 8 : faith-based volunteer mobilization, not faith-saturated spiritual transformation -- Bowling alone versus praying together -- Big picture : bridging Blacks and whites -- Faithful Philadelphia : scores of services for people in need -- Putting faith in civic partnerships -- Esperanza objectivo : the three faith factors -- The republic's faith-based future -- Myths 9 and 10 : civiv ecumenism, not sectarian triumphalism or secular extremism -- Take prisoners : evangelical Christians versus secular liberals -- Do unto others : Pratt versus Pratt -- Think Catholic : church, state, and larger communities -- No post-poverty nation : Matthew 25 -- The faith-based future's blessings -- Second trinity : three faith-free principles -- Invest wisely : FBOS as civic value stocks -- Target blessings : young Black low-income males -- Honor thy Franklin : back to America's faith-based future.
Religion and Republic
Title | Religion and Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Martin E. Marty |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1989-05-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780807012079 |
America's preeminent religious historian reflects on the critical role of religious diversity in our national self-understanding.
Religion in Republican Rome
Title | Religion in Republican Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Jorg Rupke |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2012-05-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812206576 |
Roman religion as we know it is largely the product of the middle and late republic, the period falling roughly between the victory of Rome over its Latin allies in 338 B.C.E. and the attempt of the Italian peoples in the Social War to stop Roman domination, resulting in the victory of Rome over all of Italy in 89 B.C.E. This period witnessed the expansion and elaboration of large public rituals such as the games and the triumph as well as significant changes to Roman intellectual life, including the emergence of new media like the written calendar and new genres such as law, antiquarian writing, and philosophical discourse. In Religion in Republican Rome Jörg Rüpke argues that religious change in the period is best understood as a process of rationalization: rules and principles were abstracted from practice, then made the object of a specialized discourse with its own rules of argument and institutional loci. Thus codified and elaborated, these then guided future conduct and elaboration. Rüpke concentrates on figures both famous and less well known, including Gnaeus Flavius, Ennius, Accius, Varro, Cicero, and Julius Caesar. He contextualizes the development of rational argument about religion and antiquarian systematization of religious practices with respect to two complex processes: Roman expansion in its manifold dimensions on the one hand and cultural exchange between Greece and Rome on the other.
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
Title | Religion and the Founding of the American Republic PDF eBook |
Author | James H. Hutson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
A balanced and lively look at the role of religion between colonization and the 1840s.
Faith and the Founders of the American Republic
Title | Faith and the Founders of the American Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel L. Dreisbach |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199843333 |
The role of religion in the founding of America has long been a hotly debated question. Some historians have regarded the views of a few famous founders, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Thomas Paine, as evidence that the founders were deists who advocated the strict separation of church and state. Popular Christian polemicists, on the other hand, have attempted to show that virtually all of the founders were pious Christians in favor of public support for religion. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, a diverse array of religious traditions informed the political culture of the American founding. Faith and the Founders of the American Republic includes studies both of minority faiths, such as Islam and Judaism, and of major traditions like Calvinism. It also includes nuanced analysis of specific founders-Quaker fellow-traveler John Dickinson, prominent Baptists Isaac Backus and John Leland, and Theistic Rationalist Gouverneur Morris, among others-with attention to their personal histories, faiths, constitutional philosophies, and views on the relationship between religion and the state. This volume will be a crucial resource for anyone interested in the place of faith in the founding of the American constitutional republic, from political, religious, historical, and legal perspectives.
Law and Religion in the Roman Republic
Title | Law and Religion in the Roman Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Olga Tellegen-Couperus |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2011-11-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004218505 |
Drawing on epigraphic, legal, literary, and numismatic sources, this book reveals how, in the Roman Republic, law and religion interacted to serve the same purpose, the continued growth and consolidation of Rome’s power.