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The myth of American religious freedom / David Sehat.

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by Sehat, David, author.
Call Number 261.720973 22
Publication Date 2011
Summary In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church and state. But for much of American history, David Sehat writes, Protestant Christianity was intimately intertwined with the state. Yet the past was not the Christian utopia that conservatives imagine either. Instead, a Protestant moral establishment prevailed, using government power to punish free thinkers and religious dissidents.
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The lustre of our country : the American experience of religious freedom / John T. Noonan, Jr.

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by Noonan, John Thomas, 1926-
Call Number 323.4420973 21
Publication Date 1998
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American evangelicals : a contemporary history of a mainstream religious movement / Barry Hankins.

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by Hankins, Barry, 1956-
Call Number 277.3082 22
Publication Date 2008
Summary There may be no group in American society that is more talked about but so little understood as Evangelical Christians. Sometimes dismissed as violent fundamentalists and ignorant flat earthers, few can doubt the political, cultural, and religious significance of the Evangelicals. Barry Hankins puts the Evangelical movement in historical perspective, reaching back to its roots in the Great Awakening of the 18th century and leading up to the formative moments of contemporary conservative Protestantism. Taking on key topics such as the standing of science, the authority of scripture, and gender.
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The anointed : evangelical truth in a secular age / Randall J. Stephens, Karl W. Giberson.

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by Stephens, Randall J., 1973-
Call Number 277.3082 23
Publication Date 2011
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The color of Christ [electronic resource] : the Son of God & the saga of race in America / Edward J. Blum, Paul Harvey.

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by Blum, Edward J.
Call Number 232 23
Publication Date 2012
Summary "How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey weave a tapestry of American dreams and visions--from witch hunts to web pages, Harlem to Hollywood, slave cabins to South Park, Mormon revelations to Indian reservations--to show how Americans remade the Son of God visually time and again into a sacred symbol of their greatest aspirations, deepest terrors, and mightiest strivings for racial power and justice. The Color of Christ uncovers how, in a country founded by Puritans who destroyed depictions of Jesus, Americans came to believe in the whiteness of Christ. Some envisioned a white Christ who would sanctify the exploitation of Native Americans and African Americans and bless imperial expansion. Many others gazed at a messiah, not necessarily white, who was willing and able to confront white supremacy. The color of Christ still symbolizes America's most combustible divisions, revealing the power and malleability of race and religion from colonial times to the presidency of Barack Obama"--Provided by publisher.
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