Rediscovering America's Sacred Ground
Subtitle: Public Religion and Pursuit of the Good in a Pluralistic America
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780791457061
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Christian institutions & organizations; Constitution: government & the state; Religion; Politics / Current Events; Political Science; United States - Revolutionary War; Politics/International Relations; USA; Religion, Politics & State; Public Policy - Cultural Policy; Sociology of Religion; General; Civil religion; United States
Description: "Returning to the ideas of John Locke and the Founders themselves, Barbara A. McGraw examines the debate about the role of religion in American public life and unravels the confounded rhetoric on all sides. She reveals that no group has been standing on proper ground and that all sides have misused terminology (religion/secular), dichotomies (public/private), and concepts (separation of church and state) in ways that have little relevance to the original intentions of the founders. She rediscovers a theology underlying the founding documents of the nation that is neither anyone's particular religion nor one requiring religion."--Jacket.