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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 586 p.) : ill.
Language
English
Description
This handbook examines the considerable research that has been conducted into the study of religion and politics. It reviews previous work, explains the findings of that research and speculates about the bases of the various findings.
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxviii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Many Americans have been taught a distorted, inaccurate account of our nation's founding, one that claims that the founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and that the country's founding political ideas developed without reference to Christianity. In this revelatory, rigorously argued new book, Mark David Hall thoroughly debunks that modern myth and shows instead that the founders' political ideas were profoundly...
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (vii, 236 pages)
Language
English
Description
Steven K. Green, renowned for his scholarship on the separation of church and state, charts the career of the concept and helps us understand how it has fallen into disfavor with many Americans.
In 1802, President Thomas Jefferson distilled a leading idea in the early American republic and wrote of a wall of separation between church and state. That metaphor has come down from Jefferson to twenty-first-century Americans through a long history of...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
276, 18 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A study of apocalyptic Christianity assesses the beliefs of the fifty million Americans who believe that the apocalypse will occur during their lifetimes and their involvement in debates over gay rights, foreign policy, and abortion.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
vii, 566 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Discusses how America's revolutionaries--including Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine and Ethan Allen--were inspired by ideas that were ancient and pagan in nature, including the work of Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius and Dutch heretic Benedict de Spinoza.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
x, 366 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The role of religion in the founding of America has long been a hotly debated question. Some historians have regarded the views of a few famous founders, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Thomas Paine, as evidence that the founders were deists who advocated the strict separation of church and state. Popular Christian polemicists, on the other hand, have attempted to show that virtually all of the founders were pious...
Publisher
ReelWorks Studio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Witness the incredible true story of one man's personal journey to healing that led to an international prayer movement. Retired firefighter Mark Taylor finds himself in a crisis of faith as he struggles with a diagnosis of PTSD. But, in 2011, everything changes when he experiences a revelation from God about change in leadership in our nation prior to the 2016 Presidential Election. As he works to understand his remarkable experience, he shares his...
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