Nonbeliever Nation The Rise of Secular Americans

Name: Nonbeliever Nation The Rise of Secular Americans
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ISBN: 9780230338951

ISBN-10: 023033895X

ISBN-13: 9780230338951

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Niose

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Today's culture wars are more heated than ever. Education, public policy, and the separation between church and state have become a battlefield, and many are frustrated with the success the Religious Right has had in shaping the national agenda, from putting the brakes on gay marriage in California to stripping textbooks in Texas of references to Thomas Jefferson. But today, a growing nonreligious minority, nearly 20 percent of Americans, are finally organizing and taking explicit political positions. InNonbeliever Nation, David Niose argues that America was never in fact a Christian nation and shows how the Religious Right successfully took control of the social and political narrative. He…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 7/17/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction


The Wedding Invitation


A Religious People?


A Secular Heritage


Secularity and Morality


The Disaster of the Religious Right


Better Late Than Never: Secular Americans Emerge


Reason for Hope: Secular Students


When 'Happy Holidays' is an Act of Hostility


A New Plan of Action


A Secular Future


Afterword