The long battle between exclusionary and inclusive versions of the American story Was
America founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither, argues Philip …

Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best
embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American …

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham reveals how
the Founding Fathers viewed faith—and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief …

Exploring the tension at the heart of America's culture wars, this is “a very fine book on a very
important subject”(Mark A. Noll, author of The Civil War as a Theological Crisis). Christianity …

DIV The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years
before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that pervaded …

The United States has never had an officially established national church. Since the time of
the first British colonists, it has instead developed a strong civil religion that melds God and …

The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely.
Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a “Christian …

Michelle Goldberg, a senior political reporter for Salon. com, has been covering the
intersection of politics and ideology for years. Before the 2004 election, and during the …

Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of
the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it …