Bad religion : how we became a nation of heretics /

Douthat, Ross Gregory, 1979-,

Bad religion : how we became a nation of heretics / [print] Ross Douthat. - first Free Press hardcover edition. - New York : Free Press, (c)2012. - x, 337 pages ; 24 cm



Prologue : a nation of heretics -- The lost world -- The locust years -- Accommodation -- Resistance -- Lost in the Gospels -- Pray and grow rich -- The God within -- The city on the hill.

Traces the decline of Christianity in America since the 1950s, posing controversial arguments about the role of heresy in the nation's downfall while calling for a revival of traditional Christian practices.



9781439178300 9781439178348 9781439178331

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Catholic Church.


Christianity--United States.
Christianity--United States.


Nonfiction.

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