The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the
establishment of Christianity as a national religion. But they
could not keep religion out of American politics. From the election
of 1800, when Federalist clergymen charged that deist Thomas
Jefferson was unfit to lead a "Christian nation," to today, when
some Democrats want to embrace the so-called Religious Left in
order to compete with the Republicans and the Religious Right,
religion has always been part of American politics. In "Religion in
American Politics," Frank Lambert tells the fascinating story of
the uneasy relations between religion and politics from the
founding to the twenty-first century.
Lambert examines how antebellum Protestant unity was challenged
by sectionalism as both North and South invoked religious
justification; how Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" competed
with the anticapitalist "Social Gospel" during postwar
industrialization; how the civil rights movement was perhaps the
most effective religious intervention in politics in American
history; and how the alliance between the Republican Party and the
Religious Right has, in many ways, realized the founders' fears of
religious-political electoral coalitions. In these and other cases,
Lambert shows that religion became sectarian and partisan whenever
it entered the political fray, and that religious agendas have
always mixed with nonreligious ones.
"Religion in American Politics" brings rare historical
perspective and insight to a subject that was just as
important--and controversial--in 1776 as it is today.
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