The Routledge History of Religion and Politics in the United States Since 1775

Herausgegeben:Burnidge, Cara Lea; Turek, Lauren Frances

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing together history and recent historiography, this volume offers a reference work for understanding how religion influenced politics and how politics shaped religion in the United States from the American Revolution through to the present day.

The book brings together some of the most well-regarded scholars in history, religious studies, American studies, political science, and other disciplines working in this field, providing a groundbreaking transdisciplinary history of this topic. It explores the major themes and historiographical trends that animate current scholarship, ensuring that readers come away with a thorough picture of the field, how it has evolved, and where future scholars might take us.

This unique approach is well suited to students and scholars of both U.S. history and religious studies and encourages interdisciplinary analysis for the fields of religion and politics.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Histories
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 530
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1160g
• ISBN-13: 9781032261331
• ISBN-10: 1032261331
• Artikelnr.: 72596381

Autorenporträt

Cara Lea Burnidge is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Northern Iowa where she researches and teaches courses on the history of religion and U.S. politics in the long Progressive Era. She is the author of A Peaceful Conquest: Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order (2016). Lauren Frances Turek is an Associate Professor of History at Trinity University, where she teaches courses on modern U.S. foreign relations and political history. She is the author of To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Major Conceptual Themes 1. Religion and the State 2.
Pluralism and Secularism 3. Capitalism, Religion, and Politics 4. Religion
and Foreign Relations 5. Material Culture, Material Religion, and Politics
6. Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism 7. Gender, Religion, and Politics Part 2:
Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries 8. Religion and Imperial Networks 9.
Indigenous Politics and Religious Traditions Within the Early United States
10. Religion, Politics, and Geography in British America's Northeastern
Borderlands 11. Slavery and Religion 12. The Barbary Wars 13. Electoral
Politics in the New Nation 14. Evangelical Proliferation and Power in the
Early Republic 15. Gender and Republican Motherhood 16. Mormonism in
Antebellum America Part 3: Civil War and Reconstruction 17. Religion and
Abolitionism 18. Sectional Crisis and Denominational Schisms 19. The
Omnipotence of Abraham Lincoln 20. "We Want Rights": Religion, Suffrage,
Race and Gender During the Civil War and the Reconstruction 21. Indigenous
Revivalism and the Indian Wars Part 4: Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
22. Layered Histories: Anti-Semitism, Anti-Catholicism, and Nativism in the
Long Nineteenth Century 23. Industrial Capitalism and the Gospel of Wealth
24. Social Gospel, Christian Socialism, and Progressive Reform 25. Old Time
Religious Revivalism, Technology, and Media 26. Overseas Missionaries,
Humanitarianism, and U.S. Diplomacy 27. Duty and Destiny: Religion, The
Spanish-American War, and American Empire 28. The Second KKK and Racial,
Ethnic, and Religious Violence 29. Humanitarianism Between the World Wars
Part 5: Mid- and Late 20th Century 30. World War II 31. Anti-Communism at
Home and Abroad 32. Religion and National Security in the Early Cold War
33. "Chosen as the Leader or Spokesperson": Fannie Lou Hamer as Religious
Leader and Intellectual in the Black Freedom Movement 34. Cold War Feminism
and Anti-Feminism: Gender Politics and Interreligious Coalitions 35. LGBTQ+
Rights 36. Culture Wars and the Supreme Court During the Cold War 37.
Immigration and Asian American Religions 38. Religion, Politics, and
Policymaking in the Reagan Years Part 6: Early 21st Century 39.
Evangelicals and Environmentalism 40. Latinx Religions and American
Politics: Cold War Through Trump Presidency 41. Secularism, Nones, and
Interfaith Communities 42. Islam, Islamophobia, and American Muslims 43.
Clergy Sexual Abuse 44. Conspiracy, Disinformation, and Media