America's book: the rise and decline of a Bible civilization, 1794-1911
America's Book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history decisively influenced the use of Scripture.
| Summary: | America's Book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history decisively influenced the use of Scripture. Cover -- America's Book -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Bible in American History -- 1. The Bible after Independence and before Paine -- 2. The Paine Provocation -- 3. Custodial Protestants versus Sectarian Protestants -- 4. Francis Asbury and the Methodists -- 5. The Bible Civilization in American History -- 6. Naming, Writing, and Speaking in a Hebrew Republic -- 7. Publishing -- 8. Personal Religion -- 9. The African American Bible -- 10. Slavery and the Bible before the Missouri Compromise -- 11. Slavery and the Bible, 1819-1833 -- 12. Democracy -- 13. The Law and a Christian Nation -- 14. The Common School Exception -- 15. 1844 -- 16. Whose Bible? (Catholics) -- 17. Whose Bible? (Lutherans, Jews, Naysayers, Natives) -- 18. Whose Bible? (Women) -- 19. The War before the War -- 20. Scriptural Arguments in Context -- 21. The Civil War -- 22. 1865-1875 -- 23. The Centennial Divide: 1876 and After -- 24. Protestant Wounds of War -- 25. Protestant Realignments -- 26. Marginal No More (Jews and Catholics) -- 27. Still a Bible Nation -- 28. An Enduring Cultural Landmark -- 29. Civil Religion -- 30. Still under a Bushel -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Short Titles for Notes -- Notes -- Permissions for work published earlier -- Scripture Index -- General Index. |
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| ISBN: | 0197623484 |