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Inventing a Christian America
Steven K. Green
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Description for Inventing a Christian America
Paperback. Steven K. Green explores the historical record that supports the popular belief about the nation's religious origins, seeking to explain how the ideas of America's religious founding and its status as a Christian nation became a leading narrative about the nation's collective identity. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL; HRAX; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political commentary, it is central to the way in which many Americans perceive the historical legacy of their nation. Yet, as Steven K. Green shows in this illuminating new book, it is little more than a myth. In Inventing a Christian America, Green, a leading historian of religion and politics, explores the historical record that is purported to support the popular belief in America's religious founding and status ... Read more
Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political commentary, it is central to the way in which many Americans perceive the historical legacy of their nation. Yet, as Steven K. Green shows in this illuminating new book, it is little more than a myth. In Inventing a Christian America, Green, a leading historian of religion and politics, explores the historical record that is purported to support the popular belief in America's religious founding and status ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190675226
SKU
V9780190675226
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About Steven K. Green
Steven K. Green is Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Religion, Law, and Democracy at Willamette University. He is the author of The Bible, the School, and the Constitution: The Clash that Shaped Modern Church-State Doctrine and The Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America.
Reviews for Inventing a Christian America
As Green explains, myth is not fable or fantasy but a comforting interpretation of the past that we create to make the discomfort of today more tolerable and explicable.
John H. Barnhill, Historical Journal of Massachusetts
Green's book is admirably clear, disciplined, and short. It should be required reading for anyone trying to comprehend the perennial Christian America ... Read more
John H. Barnhill, Historical Journal of Massachusetts
Green's book is admirably clear, disciplined, and short. It should be required reading for anyone trying to comprehend the perennial Christian America ... Read more