Joseph S Moore

Founding Sins

How a Group of Antislavery Radicals Fought to Put Christ Into the Constitution

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Produktbeschreibung

In Founding Sins, Joseph Moore examines the forgotten history of the Covenanters, America's first Christian nationalists. He explores how they profoundly shaped American's understandings of the separation of church and state and set the acceptable limits for religion in politics for generations to come.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 162mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780190269241
• ISBN-10: 0190269243
• Artikelnr.: 47863075

Autorenporträt

Joseph S. Moore is Assistant Professor of History at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina. He is the recipient of various grants and fellowships from institutions such as Harvard, Duke, and the Organization of American Historians. His work has appeared in The New York Times, various scholarly journals, and he has spoken widely on the history of religion and race both in Europe and the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: Presbyterian Empire
Chapter Two: The Failure to Found a Christian Nation
Chapter Three: Confronting the Godless Government
Chapter Four: Slavery and the Sin of Secular America
Chapter Five: Rejecting a Christian Nation
Afterward: Holy Scotland in the Contemporary Christian America Debate