Mission and menace : four centuries of American religious zeal / Robert Jewett ; in collaboration with Ole Wangerin.

Author/creator Jewett, Robert
Other author Wangerin, Ole.
Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxvi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
United States--Church history.

Contents Shaping zealous trajectories -- Colonial beginnings : the millennial city set upon a hill -- God's new Israel : the theocratic experiment and its deflation -- The Great Awakening : prelude to the American Revolution -- The post-millennial republic: the "new order of the ages" -- The second Great Awakening : new denominations, reforms, and the pre-millennial reaction -- Millennial crises and the rise of fundamentalism -- The Civil War : a conflict over the Bible and millennial mission -- Reconstruction and racial violence : religion in cultural captivity -- The gilded age and millennial destiny : war, colonialism, and the social Gospel -- New diversity : emerging fundamentalism and the world's parliament of religion -- Three millennial crusades : disappointment, the Red Scare, and the crisis of fundamentalism -- Culture over Christ : acculturation and the decline of mainline churches -- The menace of triumphant civil religion -- Depression and World War : the rise of religious replacement and escapism -- Cold War religion : the celebration of one nation under God -- Zealous nationalism overwhelms prophetic realism : civil rights, Vietnam, and the conservative backlash -- The political distortion of religion : impeachment and the war against terrorism.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 335-357) and index.
LCCN 2007044769
ISBN9780800662837 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0800662830 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780800662844 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0800662849 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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