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Prophesies of Godlessness - Predictions of America's Iminent Secularization from the Puritans to Postmodernity (Hardcover, New)
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Prophesies of Godlessness - Predictions of America's Iminent Secularization from the Puritans to Postmodernity (Hardcover, New)
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Prophesies of Godlessness explores the surprisingly similar
expectations of religious and moral change voiced by major American
thinkers from the time of the Puritans to today. These predictions
of "godlessness" in American society -- sometimes by those favoring
the foreseen future, sometimes by those fearing it -- have a
history as old as America, and indeed seem crucially intertwined
with it.
This book shows that there have been and continue to be patterns
to these prophesies. They determine how some people perceive and
analyze America's prospective moral and religious future, how they
express themselves, and powerfully affect how others hear them.
While these patterns have taken a sinuous and at times subterranean
route to the present, when we think about the future of America we
are thinking about that future largely with terms and expectations
first laid out by past generations, some stemming back before the
very foundations of the United States. Even contemporary atheists
and those who predict optimistic techno-utopias rely on scripts
that are deeply rooted in the American past.
This book excavates the history of these prophesies. Each chapter
attends to a particular era, and each is organized around a focal
individual, a community of thought, and changing conceptions of
secularization. Each chapter also discusses how such predictions
are part of all thought about "the good society," and how such
thinking structures our apprehension of the present, forming a
feedback loop of sorts. Extending from the role of prophesies in
Thomas Jefferson's thought, to the Civil War, through
progressivism, the Scopes Trial, the Cold War and beyond,
Prophesies of Godlessness demonstratesthat expectations about
America's future character and piety are not an accidental feature
of American thought, but have been, and continue to be, absolutely
essential to the meaning of the nation itself.
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