This Earthly Frame: The Making of American Secularism
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. Foundations -- 1. An Enlightenment Settlement -- 2. The Sociology of Law -- 3. Piers of American Secularism -- Part Two. Structures -- 4. The Difficulties of Diversity -- 5. Stumbling toward Secularism -- 6. Religion Is Personal -- 7. The Death of...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, CT
Yale University Press
[2022]
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Sehat, David, This earthly frame] (2023) (Ledewitz, Bruce, 1975 -)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Secularism
/ USA
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBQ North America SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Secularism (United States)
History
B Religion And Law B Religion And Politics B RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State |
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| Summary: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. Foundations -- 1. An Enlightenment Settlement -- 2. The Sociology of Law -- 3. Piers of American Secularism -- Part Two. Structures -- 4. The Difficulties of Diversity -- 5. Stumbling toward Secularism -- 6. Religion Is Personal -- 7. The Death of God -- Part Three. Instabilities -- 8. The Personal Is Political -- 9. Religious Freedom -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index An award-winning scholar's sweeping history of American secularism, from Jefferson to Trump"An essential book for understanding today's culture wars. Sehat's clear-eyed and elegant narrative will change how you think about our supposedly secular age."-Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill In This Earthly Frame, David Sehat narrates the making of American secularism through its most prominent proponents and most significant detractors. He shows how its foundations were laid in the U.S. Constitution and how it fully emerged only in the twentieth century. Religious and nonreligious Jews, liberal Protestants, apocalyptic sects like the Jehovah's Witnesses, and antireligious activists all used the courts and the constitutional language of the First Amendment to create the secular order. Then, over the past fifty years, many religious conservatives turned against that order, emphasizing their religious freedom. Avoiding both polemic and lament, Sehat offers a powerful reinterpretation of American secularism and a clear framework for understanding the religiously infused conflict of the present |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 030026562X |
| Access: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.12987/9780300265620 |