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  • The Sociology of Education

    Introductory Analytical Perspectives

    by Donald Swift ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    First published in 1969, this book examines the educational process as a whole in relation to its society. The discussion is set within a specifically sociological frame of reference and looks at the school as an organisation as well as the social environment surrounding the school. It concludes by considering some of the basic issues concerning the functions of education for society.Written at a ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Religion and the American Experience: A Social and Cultural History, 1765-1996

    A Social and Cultural History, 1765-1996

    by Donald C. Swift ...
    Religion in the USA manifests itself in many forms and this book examines them, from religion in the early republic, to early African American religion, reform, nativism movements, and fundamentalism, up to the contemporary culture wars, in a study that spans almost 250 years. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • American Gospel

    God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation

    by Jon Meacham ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham presents “a nimble examination of how American leaders . . . have wrestled with God personally and publicly” (USA Today)—now featuring a new Afterword by the author“A revealing and useful primer on an important, timely, and often volatile topic.”—Chicago TribuneAt a time when our country seems divided by extremism, American ... Read more

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  • Freethinkers

    A History of American Secularism

    by Susan Jacoby ...
    An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination" ( The New York Times)At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world ... Read more

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  • Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections)

    A History of the Religious Battles That Define America from Jefferson's Heresies to Gay Marriage Today

    by Stephen Prothero ...
    In this timely, carefully reasoned social history of the United States, the New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One places today’s heated culture wars within the context of a centuries-long struggle of right versus left and religious versus secular to reveal how, ultimately, liberals always win.Though they may seem to be dividing the country irreparably, today’s ... Read more

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  • Founding Faith

    Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America

    by Steven Waldman ...
    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 nation.” Many on the left contend that the Founders were secular or Deist and that the First Amendment was designed to boldly separate church and state throughout the land. None of these claims are true, argues Beliefnet ... Read more

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  • The Color of Christ

    The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America

    by Edward J. Blum, Paul Harvey ...
    How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey weave a tapestry of American dreams and visions — from witch hunts to web pages, Harlem to Hollywood, slave cabins to South Park, Mormon revelations to Indian ... Read more

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  • The Religious History of America

    The Heart of the American Story from Colonial Times to Today

    by Edwin S. Gaustad, Leigh Schmidt ...
    "A comprehensive, graceful narrative that truly represents the pluralism, momentum, and vitality of American religious life." —Amanda Porterfield, Florida State University, author of Conceived in DoubtIn this landmark work, award-winning Princeton historian Leigh Schmidt teams up with Edwin Gaustad—a scholar "in the front rank of American religious historians" ( The New York Times)—to produce a ... Read more

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  • Ten Tortured Words

    How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America . . . and What's Happened Since

    by Stephen Mansfield ...
    In the steamy summer of 1787, as America's founding fathers fashioned their Constitution, they told the most powerful institution in their new nation what it must not do:"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."Few Americans understand the miracle in world history these ten words represent. For the first time in human experience, the legislative power of a nation was ... Read more

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  • Jesus in America

    Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession

    by Richard W. Fox ...
    Where else but America do people ask: What Would Jesus Do?What Would Jesus Drive?What Would Jesus Eat?"This book is for believers and non-believers alike. It is not a book about whether one should believe in Jesus, but about how Americans have believed in and portrayed him."—from the IntroductionJesus in America is a comprehensive exploration of the vital role that the figure of Jesus has played ... Read more

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  • Did America Have a Christian Founding?

    Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth

    by Mark David Hall ...
    A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions.In 2010, David Mark Hall gave a lecture at the Heritage Foundation entitled "Did America Have a Christian Founding?" His balanced and thoughtful approach to ... Read more

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  • American Heretics

    Catholics, Jews, Muslims and the History of Religious Intolerance

    by Peter Gottschalk ...
    In the middle of the nineteenth century a group of political activists in New York City joined together to challenge a religious group they believed were hostile to the American values of liberty and freedom. Called the Know Nothings, they started riots during elections, tarred and feathered their political enemies, and barred men from employment based on their religion. The group that caused this ... Read more

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