Religion in American politics : a short history / Frank Lambert.
Religion in American politics : a short history / Frank Lambert.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
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N322.10973/ 25
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English
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Physical content
x, 294 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Providential and secular America : founding the republic -- Elusive Protestant unity : Sunday mails, Catholic immigration, and sectional division -- The "gospel of wealth" and the "social gospel" : industrialization and the rise of corporate America -- Faith and science : the modernist-fundamentalis...
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Publisher
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
c2008.
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"Lambert examines how antebellum Protestant unity was challenged by sectionalism as both North and South invoked religious justification; how Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" competed with the anticapitalist "Social Gospel" during postwar industrialization; how the civil rights movement was perhaps the most effective religious intervention in p...
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Religion in American politics : a short history / Frank Lambert.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-269) and index.
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c2008.
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N322.10973/ 25
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74VM8Nb6WZmb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM8Nb6WZmb
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ISBN
0691128332 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691128337 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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322.10973
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991000216679702626
