Religion in American Politics
Subtitle: A Short History
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: February 14, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780691128337
Subjects: Political science & theory; Religion & Beliefs; History; Politics / Current Events; History: American; USA; General; Religion, Politics & State; United States - General; American History; Political Science and International Relations; Religion
Description: The author examines several moments in American history--the sectional division of the States over slavery, the conflict between Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" and Walter Rauschenbusch's "Social Gospel," Fundamentalism's debates with Modernism, the Civil Rights Movement, and the rise of the Religious Right and the Religious Left, among others--in which religious movements attempted to shape political movements.