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The Religion Of Democracy - Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition (Paperback)
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The Religion Of Democracy - Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition (Paperback)
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A history of religion s role in the American liberal tradition
through the eyes of seven transformative thinkers Today we
associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we
argue over whether the nation s founders meant to keep religion out
of politics, the godless side is said to be liberal. But the role
of religion in American politics has always been far less
simplistic than today s debates would suggest. In "The Religion of
Democracy," historian Amy Kittelstrom shows how religion and
democracy have worked together as universal ideals in American
culture and as guides to moral action and to the social practice of
treating one another as equals who deserve to be free. The first
people in the world to call themselves liberals were New England
Christians in the early republic. Inspired by their religious
belief in a God-given freedom of conscience, these Americans
enthusiastically embraced the democratic values of equality and
liberty, giving shape to the liberal tradition that would remain
central to our politics and our way of life. "The Religion of
Democracy" re-creates the liberal conversation from the eighteenth
century to the twentieth by tracing the lived connections among
seven transformative thinkers through what they read and wrote,
where they went, whom they knew, and howthey expressed their
opinions from John Adams to William James to Jane Addams; from
Boston to Chicago to Berkeley. Sweeping and ambitious, "The
Religion of Democracy" is a lively narrative of quintessentially
American ideas as they were forged, debated, and remade across our
history."
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