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ID: 595342
Title: This Earthly Frame: The Making of American Secularism
Author: David Sehat
Narrator: George Newbern
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:24:20
Language: English
Release date: 02-22-22
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Studies
Summary:
An award-winning scholars 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 Jehovahs 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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