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American Crusades - The Rise and Fulfillment of the Protestant Establishment (Hardcover)
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American Crusades - The Rise and Fulfillment of the Protestant Establishment (Hardcover)
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American Crusades details evangelical pursuits to unite God's
purposes with American empires. It argues that religious
motivations contributed heavily to United States governmental
policies and built sacred spaces in many attempts to influence
American society. These embedded ambitions form the core of
Americanism, yet somehow remain hidden right in front of our eyes.
In the action of caretaking, they advanced their understanding of
God's demand on their lives and purposes. Evangelical and
theologically conservative Americans linked the sacred and secular,
shaping the ethos of the American people. The terminology of
religious thinking quickly sacralized concepts like democracy and
capitalism in an attempt to control and use them. Once packaged as
a sacred space in need of custody, religious leadership sought to
fulfill its kingdom responsibility and secure its future.
Eventually, a combination of religiously defined secular components
coalesced into the term known simply as Americanism. Building on
the success of the new nation and supporting the causes of
Americanism throughout the world has imprinted a uniquely
evangelical construct into the domestic and foreign policy
structures of the United States. The shifting landscape of American
culture drove evangelicalism into the margins in the 1970s, while
most scholars think that the decline of religious conservatism in
culture meant that secularization controlled foreign policy as
well, this is not true. Removed from the whims of domestic
politics, Protestant evangelical patterns of action have resisted
change in American foreign policy structures. Over time, however,
the movement lost its faith distinctives while embedding religious
principles in foundations of U.S. foreign policy. This book seeks
to produce a reorganized narrative through a critical synthesis to
locate white evangelicals' quest to be the foundational voice in
America's shaping ideological lineage.
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