The Protestant presence in twentieth-century America : religion and political culture / [print]
Phillip E. Hammond.
- Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)1992.
- vii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- SUNY series in religion, culture, and society .
- SUNY series in religion, culture, and society. .
Preface: religious pluralism and social order Part 1: themes from the past In search of a Protestant twentieth century: American religion and power since 1900 The moral majority and all that: the curious path of conservative Protestantism Cults and the civil religion: a tale of two centuries (co-authored by Robert Gordon-McCutchan) -- Part 2: Evangelicalism and politics An approach to the political meaning of Evangelicalism in present-day America Political Evangelicalism: the Anglo-American comparison Part 3: Religion and law The courts and secular humanism: how to misinterpret church-state issues The shifting meaning of a wall of separation: some notes on church, state, and conscience Constitutional faith, legitimating myth, and civil religion Part 4: The trajectory of religion and political culture Religion and the persistence of identity Up and down with the national faith The fate of liberal Protestantism in America.
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Protestant churches--History--United States--20th century. Christianity and politics--History--20th century. Christianity and culture--History--20th century.