Conceived in Doubt Religion and Politics in the New American Nation

Name: Conceived in Doubt Religion and Politics in the New American Nation
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ISBN: 9780226675121

ISBN-10: 0226675122

ISBN-13: 9780226675121

Edition: 2012

Authors: Amanda Porterfield

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Americans have long acknowledged a deep connection between evangelical religion and democracy in the early days of the republic. This is a widely accepted narrative that is maintained as a matter of fact and tradition—and in spite of evangelicalism’s more authoritarian and reactionary aspects.InConceived in Doubt, Amanda Porterfield challenges this standard interpretation of evangelicalism’s relation to democracy and describes the intertwined relationship between religion and partisan politics that emerged in the formative era of the early republic. In the 1790s, religious doubt became common in the young republic as the culture shifted from mere skepticism toward darker expressions of…

Book details

List price: $43.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/23/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.17" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Amanda Porterfield is the Robert A. Spivey Professor of Religion and professor of history at Florida State University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Faith in Reason and the Problem of Skepticism



Partisan Mistrust



Religion to the Rescue



Church Citizenship



Religion in the Formation of Political Parties



Honor into the Breach


Notes


Index