| International Standard Book Number |
9780802167958 (ebook)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780802167347 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0802167349 (hardcover)
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
200.973
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| Personal Name |
Wilensky-Lanford, Brook, author.
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| Title Statement |
A God-shaped nation : five hundred years of religion in America / Brook Wilensky-Lanford.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Five hundred years of religion in America
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| Varying Form of Title |
500 years of religion in America
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Edition Statement |
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Ã2026
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
viii, 647 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Physical Medium |
illustration rdaill
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [589]-647) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Introduction -- Part 1: Establishment, 1492-1789 -- True idols -- Invisible saints -- The ship of state -- The devil we know -- Preventing grace -- Wall of separation -- Part 2: Freedom, 1789-1865 -- Burned over -- Plea for the west -- The great disappointment -- The good death -- Part 3: Awakening, 1865-1929 -- A place to put their gods -- New thought -- Religions of the world, unite! -- Holy spirits -- Modern fundamentals -- Part 4: Dominion, 1930-1980 -- Disturbing the peace -- The liberal spirit -- Under God -- Freedom school -- Bringing the right to life -- Part 5: Morals, 1980-2025 -- Crossing over -- Above the law -- Câordoba -- General assembly -- The anointed -- Epilogue.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Ever since conquistadores claimed Taino land in the name of their Catholic God and New England Puritans formed their strictly Protestant 'city on a hill,' religion has been central to American life. Even as some found religious freedom - Rhode Island welcomed the Quakers, Jews, and Baptists that Massachusetts expelled as dissenters - indigenous people and Africans forced into slavery struggled to protect their religious practices. With the constitutional separation of church and state, it fell to the American people to decide: would they sharpen religion's formidable powers of division, or reimagine its creative possibilities? In A God-Shaped Nation, Brook Wilensky-Lanford follows this essential American tension from first contact through the 2025 inauguration. It is a story of defiance: Anne Hutchinson, preaching against Puritan clergy; Reform rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise serving soft-shell crab to his kosher guests; the Paiute man Wovoka envisioning the Ghost Dance movement in the face of violent government repression. It is also a story of community: Millerites waiting together in vain for Jesus's return on a rainy October night in 1844; Chinese immigrants bringing Daoist and Buddhist gods to their California temples; Mormons pushing westward to build their 'new Zion' in Utah. And in the last fifty years, it has been a story of muscular political power, as the religious right has sought both to shape the present and to paint the past in its own image. At this moment, when religion appears to shape even the most secular aspects of American life, understanding its complex history is more essential than ever. 'It is in history that the very human work of religion happens,' Wilensky-Lanford shows us, 'and in ordinary time that even the most carved-in-stone tenets can and do change'" -- Publisher, dust jacket flaps.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Religion fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
HISTORY / United States. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Church history.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Religion.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works. lcgft
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| Additional Physical Form Entry |
Online version Wilensky-Lanford, Brook, 1977- First edition New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2026] God-shaped nation (DLC) 2026007597 9780802167958
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| Location |
200.973 WIL 31662001855030
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