Religion in American politics : a short history / Frank Lambert.
| Author/creator | Lambert, Frank, 1943- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008. |
| Description | x, 294 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Providential and secular America : founding the republic -- Elusive Protestant unity : Sunday mails, Catholic immigration, and sectional division -- The "gospel of wealth" and the "social gospel" : industrialization and the rise of corporate America -- Faith and science : the modernist-fundamentalist controversy -- Religious and political liberalism : the rise of big government from the New Deal to the Cold War -- Civil rights as a religious movement : politics in the streets -- The rise of the "religious right" : the Reagan revolution and the "Moral Majority" -- Reemergence of the "religious left"? : America's culture war in the early twenty-first century. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-269) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007026054 |
| ISBN | 9780691128337 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0691128332 (hardcover : alk. paper) |