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Religion in America : A Political History
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ISBN: 0231526407 9780231526401 9780231151009 0231151004 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

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Denis Lacorne identifies two competing narratives defining the American identity. The first narrative, derived from the philosophy of the Enlightenment, is essentially secular. Associated with the Founding Fathers and reflected in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Federalist Papers, this line of reasoning is predicated on separating religion from politics to preserve political freedom from an overpowering church. Prominent thinkers such as Voltaire, Thomas Paine, and Jean-Nicolas Démeunier, who viewed the American project as a radical attempt to create a new regime fre


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A Sociology of Black Clergy in the State of Illinois : Activism and Acquiescence in the Post-Civil Rights Generation
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ISBN: 077341780X Year: 2011 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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