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Prophesies of godlessness : predictions of America's imminent secularization, from the Puritans to the present day / edited by Charles Mathewes and Christopher McKnight Nichols.

Contributor(s): Mathewes, Charles T, 1969- | Nichols, Christopher McKnight
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford, England ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xiii, 250 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780195342543 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0195342542 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): United States -- Religion | Secularization -- United States | United States -- ForecastingDDC classification: 200.973 LOC classification: BL2525 | .P76 2008Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : prophesies of godlessness / Christopher McKnight Nichols and Charles Mathewes -- Puritans and revolution : remembering the origin ; religion and social critique in early New England / Wilson N. Brissett -- The early republic : Thomas Jefferson's philosophy of history and the future of American Christianity / Johann N. Neem -- The Romantic era : Emerson's churches of one / Matthew Mutter -- The Civil War : redeemer president and warrior prophet : Abraham Lincoln, William T. Sherman, and evangelical Protestantism / Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh -- After the Civil War : Auguste Comte's theory of history crosses the Atlantic / Andrew Witmer -- The Gilded Age and Progressive Era : mastery, modern doubt, and the costs of progress / Christopher McKnight Nichols -- World War I and after : godlessness and the Scopes trial / Kevin M. Schultz -- The thirties to the fifties : totalitarianism and the second American Enlightenment / David Ciepley -- The sixties : secularization and the prophesies of freedom / Slavica Jakelić -- The seventies and eighties : a reversal of fortunes / Joseph E. Davis and David Franz -- From 11/9/1989 to 9/11/2001 and beyond : the return of Jeremiad and the specter of secularization / Joshua J. Yates -- Conclusion : prophesies, in retrospect and prospect / Christopher McKnight Nichols and Charles Mathewes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : prophesies of godlessness / Christopher McKnight Nichols and Charles Mathewes -- Puritans and revolution : remembering the origin ; religion and social critique in early New England / Wilson N. Brissett -- The early republic : Thomas Jefferson's philosophy of history and the future of American Christianity / Johann N. Neem -- The Romantic era : Emerson's churches of one / Matthew Mutter -- The Civil War : redeemer president and warrior prophet : Abraham Lincoln, William T. Sherman, and evangelical Protestantism / Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh -- After the Civil War : Auguste Comte's theory of history crosses the Atlantic / Andrew Witmer -- The Gilded Age and Progressive Era : mastery, modern doubt, and the costs of progress / Christopher McKnight Nichols -- World War I and after : godlessness and the Scopes trial / Kevin M. Schultz -- The thirties to the fifties : totalitarianism and the second American Enlightenment / David Ciepley -- The sixties : secularization and the prophesies of freedom / Slavica Jakelić -- The seventies and eighties : a reversal of fortunes / Joseph E. Davis and David Franz -- From 11/9/1989 to 9/11/2001 and beyond : the return of Jeremiad and the specter of secularization / Joshua J. Yates -- Conclusion : prophesies, in retrospect and prospect / Christopher McKnight Nichols and Charles Mathewes.

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