Hammond, Phillip E,

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.

BR515.H227.P768 1992