Religion in America: A Political History (Religion, Culture, and Public Life) by Denis Lacorne

Religion in America: A Political History (Religion, Culture, and Public Life)



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Religion in America: A Political History (Religion, Culture, and Public Life) Denis Lacorne
Language: English
Page: 249
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0231151004, 9780231151009
Publisher: Columbia University Press

Religion in America, which concerns the non-contradiction between Enlightenment and Protestantism in the American imagination, confirms what I've long suspected: that Lacorne understands us better than we understand ourselves.

(Mark Lilla, Columbia University, author of The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West )

Democracy in America (1835) and attempting to avoid simplistic clichés of American religion, French political scientist Denis Lacorne brilliantly argues that religion has played an ongoing role in the American republic because it has blended Enlightenment skepticism, American pragmatism, and religious innovation and entrepreneurialism over the past two centuries. He cogently engages widespread misconceptions among French intellectuals and Europeans about the role of religion in American public life and points to the ironic and contradictory impulses within American and French political life. His book reads like a modern Tocqueville, and it is highly recommended!

(Gastón Espinosa, Claremont McKenna College, author of Religion and the American Presidency: George Washington to George W. Bush with Commentary and Primary Sources )

(Financial Times August 1, 2011)

(Booklist 8/1/11)

(Kirkus Reviews 8/1/11)

(Jim Cullen Cutting Edge 10/27/2011)

(Jim Cullen History News Network 10/23/2011)

(Library Journal 10/15/2011)

With Us or Against Us: Studies in Global Anti-Americanism and Language, Nation, and State: Identity Politics in a Multilingual Age, both with Tony Judt.Tony Judt (1948--2010) was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University and director of its Erich Maria Remarque Institute. His last book was The Memory Chalet.

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