Spiritual Politics
Subtitle: Religion and America Since World War II (Touchstone Books)
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: April 15, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780671675639
Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit; Philosophy; Sociology; Metaphysical Phenomena - General; General; Metaphysical Phenomena; History; Philosophy / General; Religion; Social Science-General
First sentence: IF, at the end of World War II, a commentator on American religion had predicted that in the course of the next forty years urban mass revivalism would be rekindled; a Roman Catholic politician would be elected president and Roman Catholic priests convicted of destroying draft files; a German-Jewish immigrant would become Secretary of State; untold numbers of Americans would attach themselves to Oriental gurus and self-help cults; the birthday of a Negro minister would become a national holiday; prayer would be banned from public schools and the teaching of Darwinian evolution embroiled in controversy; a fundamentalist account of the Millennium would be the best-selling book of one decade and fundamentalist ministers the best-known leaders of American Protestantism in the next; then he (or she) would likely have been dismissed as the prisoner of a bizarre, if obscure, fantasy.