Nicole Guétin

Religious Ideology in American Politics

A History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The connections between religion and political discourse in the arena of American politics are profound and longstanding. By looking at the writings of American thinkers from colonial times to the present, this work argues for the consistency and permanence of the American religious vision as it relates to political life. Ideas including Manifest Destiny, America as "God's Country" and Americans as "God's People" are explored within this framework, as is how these ideals of American exceptionalism and the "City on the Hill" have survived and mutated into the current U.S. political climate. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780786441938
• ISBN-10: 0786441933
• Artikelnr.: 25609402

Autorenporträt

Nicole Guétin is an associate professor of English and teaches American culture at the University of Kairouan, Tunisia.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Preface     
Introduction     
PART I : THE IDEALIST VISION OF THE NEW WORLD
1. The Puritan Heritage     
2. Religious Motivations in the American Revolution     
3. The Emergence of a Collective Consciousness     
PART II : THE AMERICAN POLICY OF CONQUEST
4. American Expansionism and Destiny     
5. America: A God-Centered Nation     
6. American Exceptionalism     
PART III : THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES
7. The Monroe Doctrine     
8. Racism and the Ethnocentric Debate     
9. Civil Religion and American Messianism     
10. Evangelism and Millenarianism     
Conclusion     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index