Christianity's American Fate (eBook)

How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular

David A. Hollinger (Autor)

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2022
216 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23389-5 (ISBN)

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Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural lifeHow did American Christianity become synonymous with conservative white evangelicalism? This sweeping work by a leading historian of modern America traces the rise of the evangelical movement and the decline of mainline Protestantism's influence on American life. In Christianity's American Fate, David Hollinger shows how the Protestant establishment, adopting progressive ideas about race, gender, sexuality, empire, and divinity, liberalized too quickly for some and not quickly enough for others. After 1960, mainline Protestantism lost members from both camps-conservatives to evangelicalism and progressives to secular activism. A Protestant evangelicalism that was comfortable with patriarchy and white supremacy soon became the country's dominant Christian cultural force.Hollinger explains the origins of what he calls Protestantism's "e;two-party system"e; in the United States, finding its roots in America's religious culture of dissent, as established by seventeenth-century colonists who broke away from Europe's religious traditions; the constitutional separation of church and state, which enabled religious diversity; and the constant influx of immigrants, who found solidarity in churches. Hollinger argues that the United States became not only overwhelmingly Protestant but Protestant on steroids. By the 1960s, Jews and other non-Christians had diversified the nation ethnoreligiously, inspiring more inclusive notions of community. But by embracing a socially diverse and scientifically engaged modernity, Hollinger tells us, ecumenical Protestants also set the terms by which evangelicals became reactionary.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.10.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Accountability • Adventism • Advocacy • African Americans • agnosticism • A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Alfred Kinsey • Ambivalence • America in the King Years • Antichrist • antipathy • Anxiety • attempt • Baptists • Behavior • belief in God • Biblical Hermeneutics • Billy Wilder • Black Power Movement • Buddhist Studies • Calvinism • Catholic Church • Christian and Missionary Alliance • Christianity • Christianity in Africa • Christian realism • Christian tradition • Church of the Brethren • Citizenship • Civil and Political Rights • clericalism • Code of conduct • congregational church • Cosmopolitanism • Cultural Imperialism • Decolonization • diplomatic history • diplomatic recognition • Dispensationalism • Dissemination • Doctrine • Dutch Reformed Church • Economic Capital • Economic Inequality • Ecumenism • Edward Said • Environmentalism • Epicureanism • Episcopal Church (United States) • Erik Erikson • evangelicalism • Free Exercise Clause • George Houser • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel • Globalism • Global South (Anglican) • Groucho Marx • Hebrews • Historicity • History • holiness movement • H. Richard Niebuhr • Ibn Saud • I. F. Stone • imperialism • implementation • Incumbent (ecclesiastical) • Indigenous peoples • inference • Institution • Intellectual history • Intelligentsia • Islamic Studies • isolationism • Jack Benny • japanese americans • Jehovah's Witnesses • Jesus of Nazareth (miniseries) • Jews • John Kerry • John McCain • johns hopkins • Jurisprudence • Kate Millett • Korea under Japanese rule • Laity • Laos • Law School • learning • Letter from Birmingham Jail • Literature • Lutheranism • mainline Protestant • Manzanar • Marcus Borg • Margaret Fuller • Martin E. Marty • Methodism • Michael Dukakis • Missionary • Missionary (LDS Church) • Most Favoured Nation • names of god • Nationalism • Nausea • New Revised Standard Version • Nicholas Wolterstorff • Nonviolence • Norman Rockwell • nuclear weapon • of education • originality • Party System • Patriarchy • Pat Robertson • Pat Toomey • Pauli Murray • Paul Weyrich • Peace Corps • plaintiff • Politician • popularity • Prejudice • Presbyterianism • Princeton Theological Seminary • Principles (retailer) • Private School • progressivism • Protestantism • public administration • Rabbi • Racism • Radicalism (historical) • rebuttal • Reformed Church in America • Religion • Religious Denomination • religious text • Reva Siegel • Richard Dawkins • Rick Perlstein • Rite • Robertson's • Sacrifice • sect • Sectarianism • Secularism • seminary • separation of church and state • Sermon on the Mount • Sex education in the United States • Social practice (art) • Social Structure • Society of the United States • Socioeconomics • Soft Law • Sola Scriptura • southern baptist convention • Student Volunteer Movement • Superiority (short story) • Susan Collins • Taoism • Television Network • Textual criticism • The Christian Community • the death of God • Theology • Theory of knowledge (IB course) • Traditionalist Catholic • two-party system • Uganda • urbanization • Virgin birth of Jesus • Voting • Walter Judd (politician) • Washington Gladden • Wealth • Western Europe • white people • William A. Eddy • Willie Horton • Woodrow Wilson • World Peace
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23389-6 / 0691233896
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23389-5 / 9780691233895