God's New Israel: Religious Interpretations of American DestinyConrad Cherry UNC Press Books, 2014 M02 1 - 448 páginas The belief that America has been providentially chosen for a special destiny has deep roots in the country's past. As both a stimulus of creative American energy and a source of American self-righteousness, this notion has long served as a motivating national mythology.
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... religious denominations nor a history of American theology . It is , instead , a history of Americans ' religious perspective on themselves as a people . As such , it is a treatment of a central belief in America's civil religion . The ...
Religious Interpretations of American Destiny Conrad Cherry. altar of history that America's God - given task of rescuing ... Civil Religion , Church and State , ed . Martin E. Marty ( New York : K. G. Saur , 1992 ) , pp . 234–46 . in the ...
... theme of this book . 8. Emile Durkheim , The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life , trans . J. W. Swain ( New York : Free Press , 1965 ) , pp . 464 , 474–75 . The American Civil Religion It has become a commonplace to Introduction 7.
Religious Interpretations of American Destiny Conrad Cherry. The American Civil Religion It has become a commonplace to refer to radical pluralism as the cardinal mark of religion in America . The settlement of this land by peoples of ...
... religious dimension of their civil life and one of the traditional religions . The American church historian Sidney Mead is so convinced of the presence of this civil religion at the very founda- tions of American life and of its ...
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REVOLUTION CONSTITUTION AND A NEW NATIONS DESTINY | 61 |
WESTWARD THE COURSE OF DESTINY | 113 |
CIVIL WAR AND NATIONAL DESTINY | 163 |
NATIONAL PROGRESS AND WEALTH | 217 |
AMERICAN DESTINY AND WORLD WAR | 267 |
CHALLENGES SINCE MIDCENTURY | 303 |
Index | 395 |
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God's New Israel: Religious Interpretations of American Destiny Conrad Cherry Vista de fragmentos - 1971 |