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God and the Atlantic - America, Europe, and the Religious Divide (Hardcover)
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God and the Atlantic - America, Europe, and the Religious Divide (Hardcover)
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Since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the United States and
Western Europe's paths to modernity have diverged sharply with
respect to religion. In short, Americans have maintained much
friendlier ties with traditional forms of religion than their
European counterparts. What explains this transatlantic religious
divide? Accessing the topic though nineteenth and early
twentieth-century European commentary on the United States, Thomas
Albert Howard argues that an 'Atlantic gap' in religious matters
has deep and complex historical roots, and enduringly informs some
strands of European disapprobation of the United States. While
exploring in the first chapters 'Old World' disquiet toward the
young republic's religious dynamics, the book turns in the final
chapters and focuses on more constructive European assessments of
the United States. Acknowledging the importance of Alexis de
Tocqueville for the topic, Howard argues that a widespread
overreliance on Tocqueville as interpreter of America has had a
tendency to overshadow other noteworthy European voices. Two
underappreciated figures here receive due attention: the Protestant
Swiss-German church historian, Philip Schaff, and the French
Catholic philosopher, Jacques Maritain. While the transatlantic
religious divide has received commentary from journalists and
sociologists in recent decades, this is the first major work of
cultural and intellectual history devoted to the subject.
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