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7%OFFJason W. Stevens - God-Fearing and Free: A Spiritual History of America´s Cold War - 9780674055551 - V9780674055551
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God-Fearing and Free: A Spiritual History of America´s Cold War

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Description for God-Fearing and Free: A Spiritual History of America´s Cold War Hardback. Religion has been on the rise in America for decades - which strikes many as a shocking new development. This book shows how the American public, powered by a national religious revival, was purposefully disillusioned regarding the country's mythical innocence and fortified for an epochal struggle with totalitarianism. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HRAM2; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 34. Weight in Grams: 803.

Religion has been on the rise in America for decades—which strikes many as a shocking new development. To the contrary, Jason Stevens asserts, the rumors of the death of God were premature. Americans have always conducted their cultural life through religious symbols, never more so than during the Cold War. In God-Fearing and Free, Stevens discloses how the nation, on top of the world and torn between grandiose self-congratulation and doubt about the future, opened the way for a new master narrative. The book shows how the American public, powered by a national religious revival, was purposefully disillusioned regarding the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674055551
SKU
V9780674055551
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About Jason W. Stevens
Jason W. Stevens is Assistant Professor of English, Harvard University.

Reviews for God-Fearing and Free: A Spiritual History of America´s Cold War
Thorough and convincing in its scholarship, lucid and urgent in its prose, Jason Stevens's book shows us just how important were the popular elements of fundamentalist Christianity during the Cold War and sets aside as relatively unimportant the re-alluring intellectual tragic ironist, Reinhold Niebuhr, in his account of how the US lived and fought the Cold War. Stevens has ... Read more

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