Prud'homme Faith and Politics in America

From Jamestown to the Civil War
300. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4539-0180-9
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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Reihe: Major Concepts in Politics and Political Theory

Faith and Politics in America explores the period from 1607 to the American Civil War. This book addresses the role of religion in the political process in early America, the extent to which religion influenced eighteenth century politicians and decision-makers, and how the founding fathers used religion in laying the foundations for a fair and just constitution. It also explores the meaning of the separation of church and state in the mind of many of the great political actors and thinkers in America in the early and late federal period and their views on traditional Christianity. The book traces how religion contributed to the success of subsequent political leaders, such as the founders of the Whig and Democratic parties, who claimed to be religious or to be adherents of a certain faith and who used religion as a guide to execute policies; and the role of religious faith in arguments over the institution of slavery before and during the Civil War. While exploring these topics from the time of the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, the essays included in Faith and Politics in America afford unique assessments of the American Revolution; the thought of Thomas Jefferson; the religious philosophy of James Madison; the life and thought of John Quincy Adams; the operation of the second party system; and religious debates over the acceptability of slavery immediately prior to the Civil War.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prud'homme, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Joseph Prud’homme: Introduction – John Turner: Colonial Religion and the True Revolution in Virginia – Joseph Prud’homme: Rev. Thomas Bray, Colonial Maryland, and the Role of Religion in Public Life – Stephen Strehle: Jefferson’s Opposition to the Judeo-Christian Tradition – Garrett Sheldon: Religion in the Thought of James Madison – Gary Smith: John Quincy Adams and a Republic of Virtue – Dawn Hutchinson: Slavery in America: An Institution Defined by Faith – Joseph Prud’homme: Evangelical Ministers in the Antebellum South and Guilt over Slavery: The Incoherence of Evangelical Pro-Slavery Thought.

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Prud’homme is a professor of Political Science and the Director of the Institute for the Study of Religion, Politics, and Culture at Washington College in Chesterton, Maryland.