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This Earthly Frame
- Author
- David Sehat
- Narrator
- George Newbern
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 24 May 2022
- Run Time
- 10 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
An award-winning scholar’s sweeping history of American secularism, from Jefferson to Trump
In This Earthly Frame, David Sehat describes the making of American secularism through its most prominent proponents and most significant detractors. He shows how its foundations were laid in the US Constitution and how it fully emerged only in the twentieth century. Religious and nonreligious Jews, liberal Protestants, apocalyptic sects like the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and antireligious activists all used the courts and the constitutional language of the First Amendment to create the secular order. Then, over the past fifty years, many religious conservatives turned against that order, emphasizing their religious freedom.
Avoiding both polemic and lament, Sehat offers a powerful reinterpretation of American secularism and a clear framework for understanding the religiously infused conflict of the present.
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“An essential book for understanding today’s culture wars.”
Molly Worthen, author of Apostles of Reason
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Details
- Author
- David Sehat
- Narrator
- George Newbern
- Duration
- 10 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 May 2022
- ISBN
- 9798200927111
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Religion and politics
Synopsis
An award-winning scholar’s sweeping history of American secularism, from Jefferson to TrumpIn This Earthly Frame, David Sehat describes the making of American secularism through its most prominent proponents and most significant detractors. He shows how its foundations were laid in the US Constitution and how it fully emerged only in the twentieth century. Religious and nonreligious Jews, liberal Protestants, apocalyptic sects like the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and antireligious activists all used the courts and the constitutional language of the First Amendment to create the secular order. Then, over the past fifty years, many religious conservatives turned against that order, emphasizing their religious freedom.Avoiding both polemic and lament, Sehat offers a powerful reinterpretation of American secularism and a clear framework for understanding the religiously infused conflict of the present.
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