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Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy
University of Chicago Press, 2019 Cloth: 978-0-226-66371-5 | Paper: 978-0-226-66385-2 | eISBN: 978-0-226-66399-9 Library of Congress Classification BR525.G35 2019 Dewey Decimal Classification 277.3082
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
“Judeo-Christian” is a remarkably easy term to look right through. Judaism and Christianity obviously share tenets, texts, and beliefs that have strongly influenced American democracy. In this ambitious book, however, K. Healan Gaston challenges the myth of a monolithic Judeo-Christian America. She demonstrates that the idea is not only a recent and deliberate construct, but also a potentially dangerous one. From the time of its widespread adoption in the 1930s, the ostensible inclusiveness of Judeo-Christian terminology concealed efforts to promote particular conceptions of religion, secularism, and politics. Gaston also shows that this new language, originally rooted in arguments over the nature of democracy that intensified in the early Cold War years, later became a marker in the culture wars that continue today. She argues that the debate on what constituted Judeo-Christian—and American—identity has shaped the country’s religious and political culture much more extensively than previously recognized. See other books on: Christianity and politics | Redefinition | Religion and politics | Religious pluralism | Secularism See other titles from University of Chicago Press |
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Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
University of Chicago Press, 2019
Cloth: 978-0-226-66371-5
Paper: 978-0-226-66385-2
eISBN: 978-0-226-66399-9
Cloth: 978-0-226-66371-5
Paper: 978-0-226-66385-2
eISBN: 978-0-226-66399-9
“Judeo-Christian” is a remarkably easy term to look right through. Judaism and Christianity obviously share tenets, texts, and beliefs that have strongly influenced American democracy. In this ambitious book, however, K. Healan Gaston challenges the myth of a monolithic Judeo-Christian America. She demonstrates that the idea is not only a recent and deliberate construct, but also a potentially dangerous one. From the time of its widespread adoption in the 1930s, the ostensible inclusiveness of Judeo-Christian terminology concealed efforts to promote particular conceptions of religion, secularism, and politics. Gaston also shows that this new language, originally rooted in arguments over the nature of democracy that intensified in the early Cold War years, later became a marker in the culture wars that continue today. She argues that the debate on what constituted Judeo-Christian—and American—identity has shaped the country’s religious and political culture much more extensively than previously recognized.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
