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The Production of American Religious Freedom (Paperback)
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The Production of American Religious Freedom (Paperback)
Series: North American Religions
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Americans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what
they mean by either "religion" or "freedom." Rather than resolve
these debates, Finbarr Curtis argues that there is no such thing as
religious freedom. Lacking any consistent content, religious
freedom is a shifting and malleable rhetoric employed for a variety
of purposes. While Americans often think of freedom as the right to
be left alone, the free exercise of religion works to produce,
challenge, distribute, and regulate different forms of social
power. The book traces shifts in the notion of religious freedom in
America from The Second Great Awakening, to the fiction of Louisa
May Alcott and the films of D.W. Griffith, through William Jennings
Bryan and the Scopes Trial, and up to debates over the Tea Party to
illuminate how Protestants have imagined individual and national
forms of identity. A chapter on Al Smith considers how the first
Catholic presidential nominee of a major party challenged
Protestant views about the separation of church and state. Moving
later in the twentieth century, the book analyzes Malcolm X's more
sweeping rejection of Christian freedom in favor of radical forms
of revolutionary change. The final chapters examine how
contemporary controversies over intelligent design and the claims
of corporations to exercise religion are at the forefront of
efforts to shift regulatory power away from the state and toward
private institutions like families, churches, and corporations. The
volume argues that religious freedom is produced within competing
visions of governance in a self-governing nation.
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