... of racial justice. Christian America racism racial inequality black Americans religion Consistent with what we might expect given Trump’s “Christian nationalist” rhetoric, believing more firmly in this supposed connection between Christian and American identities was among the strongest predictors...

... into Generations A and B. To Indian American Hindus, Hinduism and Indianness are interconnected. More importantly, they explore and negotiate the meanings of being Indian American Hindus as racial and religious outsiders in a white and Christian America. The chapter shows the limits of an approach that only...

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...This chapter discusses Christian America's reactions to Richard M. Nixon's own brand of foreign policy, which promised to reduce tension between the United States, the USSR, and the PRC. Nixon earnestly supported negotiations with the Soviet Union over the arms race with the Strategic Arms...

... and Catholic Church Indian wars as Muslim Protestantism and Protestants Cold War Eisenhower Dwight Christian America Islamophobia religion and social studies social studies standards Texas public schools Texas State Board of Education “these books make Moses the original founding father...

... National Council of Churches Roman Catholicism Today’s English Version American Bible Society Roy Peterson Christian America John Erickson Bible in America Religion in America John Erickson sits at a table in his home in Crawford, Nebraska, on a chilly March 2015 morning. He is sipping bottled...

...This chapter argues that the phrase “Christian America” is fraught with confusion. The Constitution itself implies nothing about Christianity and could equally serve as a constitution for countries with other than Christian-majority populations. Nevertheless, the Constitution and the Establishment...

... of therapeutic, prosperity-driven theologies and consumer models of outreach. The third, the expansion of the liberal pluralist state, threatened American Protestantism’s privileged cultural status, set mainline advocates of pluralism against evangelical defenders of ‘Christian America,’ and restructured...

... physics and neuroscience. It is paradoxical that evangelical and other theologically conservative Christians embrace CAM because evangelicals seek to avoid religious pluralism. Yet the myth of a Christian America, and narrow definitions of religion that focus on intellectual beliefs instead of bodily...

... of the twenty-first century. The battle between modernists and fundamentalists increasingly focuses on the secularization of culture. While modernists were able to control denominational hierarchies within the Seven Sisters, they began to lose touch with wider Christian America. Thus, even...

... as a specifically Christian nation. It defines evangelicalism, which was centrally important to both North and South, and suggests that the Civil War may be understood in part as a clash of competing visions for a properly Christian America. The introduction then situates the book within the context of current...

...This chapter examines the events of the nineteenth century where the Jeffersonian–Madisonian understanding of separation gave way to a pan-Protestant notion of the concept. It highlights “Christian America” or the “Moral Establishment,” wherein a Protestant ethos held sway over the nation's culture...

..., and traditions, including modern Europe, nineteenth-century Christian America, American Judaism, Buddhism, paganism, and Hinduism. finance religious government religious institutions state religion collective productive religions Ekelund Jr Robert B religious commodities Smith Adam Iannaccone Laurence R...

... that America is a Christian nation. Blacks from an early date, however, have argued that Christian America is a hollow concept, informed by assumptions of white supremacy. In the nineteenth century, David Walker ridiculed the notion of Christian America, while Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells claimed...

...The fourth chapter surveys the generally positive reception northern evangelicals gave Andrew Johnson following Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865 and through the remainder of the year. Flowing from their desire to see one whole, Christian America realized, northern evangelicals explicitly...

...The Conclusion highlights the reality that Reconstruction had not turned out as most northern evangelicals had hoped. The Christian America envisioned by radicals, one which ensured an equitable place for the ex-slaves, had failed to materialize. Though legally in possession of political and civil...

... whiteness Christian America white defiance COVID-19 racism On May 5, 2020, President Donald Trump toured a manufacturing plant in Phoenix, Arizona—Honeywell—that was producing N-95 face masks in response to the COVID-19 crisis. The trip was part of the administration’s efforts to champion the working...

... continuing pressure to migrate North to Europe and North America (in particular the United States), bringing their religious and cultural patterns with them. The last section discusses Christian America, and the fact that the United States is home to a remarkable number of religious denominations, which...