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Faith in Freedom - Propaganda, Presidential Politics, and the Making of an American Religion (Hardcover)
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Faith in Freedom - Propaganda, Presidential Politics, and the Making of an American Religion (Hardcover)
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In Faith in Freedom, Andrew R. Polk argues that the American civil
religion so many have identified as indigenous to the founding
ideology was, in fact, the result of a strategic campaign of
religious propaganda. Far from being the natural result of the
nation's religious underpinning or the later spiritual machinations
of conservative Protestants, American civil religion and the
resultant "Christian nationalism" of today were crafted by secular
elites in the middle of the twentieth century. Polk's genealogy of
the national motto, "In God We Trust," revises the very meaning of
the contemporary American nation. Polk shows how Presidents
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower,
working with politicians, advertising executives, and military
public relations experts, exploited denominational religious
affiliations and beliefs in order to unite Americans during the
Second World War and, then, the early Cold War. Armed opposition to
the Soviet Union was coupled with militant support for free
economic markets, local control of education and housing, and
liberties of speech and worship. These preferences were cultivated
by state actors so as to support a set of right-wing positions
including anti-communism, the Jim Crow status quo, and limited
taxation and regulation. Faith in Freedom is a pioneering work of
American religious history. By assessing the ideas, policies, and
actions of three US Presidents and their White House staff, Polk
sheds light on the origins of the ideological, religious, and
partisan divides that describe the American polity today.
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