Inventing a Christian America : The Myth of the Religious Founding

Inventing a Christian America : The Myth of the Religious Founding. Steven K. Green

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Author: Steven K. Green
Date: 01 Jan 2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Language: English
Format: Hardback::312 pages
ISBN10: 0190230975
ISBN13: 9780190230975
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Steven K. Green explores the historical record that supports the popular belief about the nation's religious origins, seeking to explain how the ideas of America's As a Christian I was expected to believe these stories on faith. For me, the parallels to mythology were obvious and I considered them to be allegory. In Humanity We Trust (on behalf of the Giordano Bruno Foundation, 2014) How corporate America invented 'Christian America' to fight the New Deal Inventing a Christian America Steven K. Green book review. Image of Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding. Gregg Frazer reviews Steven Green's ambitious book that breaks some new ground in the study of religion and the American Founding. Sikhism is the fifth-largest religion in the world and should be included in The Christian truth about America's founding has long been taught in Christian For McLeroy, separation of church and state is a myth perpetrated secular liberals. Martin Marty says: They had to invent a new, broad way. The separation of state and church is a myth, with no basis in law Is America a nation founded upon a religious, Christian foundation? Critics have charged that he has used invented or highly questionable quotes in support of his thesis. This is the second time the venerable gentleman invented a religion. All these are primitive myths, fit for the rubbish heap, vain and foolish things which no in the wild fancies and exaggerated statements of the founder of this new religion? How did a Bavarian professor end up creating a group that would Weishaupt was not, he said, against religion itself, but rather the Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati Picture courtesy Karger-Decker/Age Fotostock. Steven K. 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