This Earthly Frame

This Earthly Frame
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 343
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ISBN-10 : 9780300265620
ISBN-13 : 030026562X
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Book Synopsis This Earthly Frame by : David Sehat

Download or read book This Earthly Frame written by David Sehat and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning scholar’s sweeping history of American secularism, from Jefferson to Trump “An essential book for understanding today’s culture wars. Sehat’s clear-eyed and elegant narrative will change how you think about our supposedly secular age.”—Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill In This Earthly Frame, David Sehat narrates the making of American secularism through its most prominent proponents and most significant detractors. He shows how its foundations were laid in the U.S. Constitution and how it fully emerged only in the twentieth century. Religious and nonreligious Jews, liberal Protestants, apocalyptic sects like the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and antireligious activists all used the courts and the constitutional language of the First Amendment to create the secular order. Then, over the past fifty years, many religious conservatives turned against that order, emphasizing their religious freedom. Avoiding both polemic and lament, Sehat offers a powerful reinterpretation of American secularism and a clear framework for understanding the religiously infused conflict of the present.


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