Getting religion : faith, culture, and politics, from the age of Eisenhower to the era of Obama
Title:
Getting religion : faith, culture, and politics, from the age of Eisenhower to the era of Obama
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Publication Date as Range:
2016
ISBN:
9781101907399
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
447 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Embedded religion -- A fusion of faith, culture, and politics -- Mediating religion -- When the secular was sacred -- Entrepreneurial religion -- Movement religion -- Religion and revolution -- Women's liberation and the feminization of religion -- Experiential religion -- Alternatives to religion -- Sacred families -- Piety and politics : the Republicans and the religious right -- Religion as politics : the Democrats.
Abstract:
"Blends memoir (especially of the postwar era) with ... reporting and ... historical analysis to tell the story of how American religion, culture, and politics influenced each other in the second half of the twentieth century"--Dust jacket flap.
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