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Christianity's American Fate - How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular (Hardcover)
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Christianity's American Fate - How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular (Hardcover)
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Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline
Protestantism in American religious and cultural life How did
American Christianity become synonymous with conservative white
evangelicalism? This sweeping work by a leading historian of modern
America traces the rise of the evangelical movement and the decline
of mainline Protestantism's influence on American life. In
Christianity's American Fate, David Hollinger shows how the
Protestant establishment, adopting progressive ideas about race,
gender, sexuality, empire, and divinity, liberalized too quickly
for some and not quickly enough for others. After 1960, mainline
Protestantism lost members from both camps-conservatives to
evangelicalism and progressives to secular activism. A Protestant
evangelicalism that was comfortable with patriarchy and white
supremacy soon became the country's dominant Christian cultural
force. Hollinger explains the origins of what he calls
Protestantism's "two-party system" in the United States, finding
its roots in America's religious culture of dissent, as established
by seventeenth-century colonists who broke away from Europe's
religious traditions; the constitutional separation of church and
state, which enabled religious diversity; and the constant influx
of immigrants, who found solidarity in churches. Hollinger argues
that the United States became not only overwhelmingly Protestant
but Protestant on steroids. By the 1960s, Jews and other
non-Christians had diversified the nation ethnoreligiously,
inspiring more inclusive notions of community. But by embracing a
socially diverse and scientifically engaged modernity, Hollinger
tells us, ecumenical Protestants also set the terms by which
evangelicals became reactionary.
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