TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gorski,Philip
TI  - American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present 
SN  - 9780691191676
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American civil religion
KW  - American exceptionalism
KW  - Americans
KW  - Apocalypticism
KW  - Aristocracy
KW  - Atheism
KW  - Barack Obama
KW  - Calvinism
KW  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Christian ethics
KW  - Christian nationalism
KW  - Christian theology
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Civic nationalism
KW  - Civic virtue
KW  - Civil religion
KW  - Classical liberalism
KW  - Classical republicanism
KW  - Common good
KW  - Constitutional patriotism
KW  - Cotton Mather
KW  - Covenant theology
KW  - Culture war
KW  - Deism
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Demonization
KW  - Doctrine
KW  - Election
KW  - Freedom of religion
KW  - Freedom of speech
KW  - God
KW  - Good and evil
KW  - Governance
KW  - Government
KW  - H. L. Mencken
KW  - Hannah Arendt
KW  - Heresy
KW  - Heterodoxy
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Idolatry
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Individualism
KW  - Institution
KW  - Jane Addams
KW  - Jeremiad
KW  - Jerry Falwell
KW  - Jews
KW  - John Courtney Murray
KW  - John Locke
KW  - John Winthrop
KW  - Judeo-Christian
KW  - Liberal democracy
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Liberty
KW  - Militarism
KW  - Millennialism
KW  - Modernity
KW  - Narrative
KW  - New Atheism
KW  - Nonbeliever
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Oligarchy
KW  - Orthodoxy
KW  - Pacifism
KW  - Patriotism
KW  - Philosophy of history
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Polemic
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Political philosophy
KW  - Political religion
KW  - Political theology
KW  - Politician
KW  - Politics
KW  - Progressive Era
KW  - Protestantism
KW  - Public sphere
KW  - Puritans
KW  - Racism
KW  - Reinhold Niebuhr
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religious nationalism
KW  - Representative democracy
KW  - Republic
KW  - Republicanism
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Righteousness
KW  - Secular humanism
KW  - Secularism
KW  - Separation of church and state
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Social justice
KW  - Social liberalism
KW  - The Other Hand
KW  - Theology
KW  - Totalitarianism
KW  - United States Constitution
KW  - Wealth
KW  - World War II
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface to the Paperback Edition --; Preface: Three Trips to Philadelphia --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction. Prophetic Republicanism as Vital Center --; Chapter 1. The Civil Religious Tradition and Its Rivals --; Chapter 2. The Hebraic Moment: The New England Puritans --; Chapter 3. Hebraic Republicanism: The American Revolution --; Chapter 4. Democratic Republicanism: The Civil War --; Chapter 5. The Progressive Era: Empire and the Republic --; Chapter 6. The Post–World War II Period: Jew, Protestant, Catholic --; Chapter 7. From Reagan to Obama: Tradition Corrupted and (Almost) Recovered --; Chapter 8. The Civil Religion: Critics and Allies --; Conclusion. The Righteous Republic --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The long battle between exclusionary and inclusive versions of the American storyWas America founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither, argues Philip Gorski in American Covenant. What the founders envisioned was a prophetic republic that would weave together the ethical vision of the Hebrew prophets and the Western political heritage of civic republicanism. In this eye-opening book, Gorski shows why this civil religious tradition is now in peril—and with it the American experiment.American Covenant traces the history of prophetic republicanism from the Puritan era to today, providing insightful portraits of figures ranging from John Winthrop and W.E.B. Du Bois to Jerry Falwell, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama. Featuring a new preface by the author, this incisive book demonstrates how half a century of culture war has drowned out the quieter voices of the vital center, and demonstrates that if we are to rebuild that center, we must recover the civil religious tradition on which the republic was founded
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691193861?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691193861
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