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Title
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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.
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Imprint
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Descr.
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xiii, 250 p. ; 24 cm.
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Stacks BL2525 .P76 2008 Regular Loan
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External
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 Table of contents only
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Bibliogr.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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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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Subject
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United States -- Religion.
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Secularization -- United States.
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United States -- Forecasting.
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Add.Entry
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Mathewes, Charles T., 1969-
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Nichols, Christopher McKnight.
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000585761
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