David Sehat This Earthly Frame (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: This Earthly FrameCondition: NewSubtitle: The Making of American SecularismISBN-10: 0300244215EAN: 9780300244212ISBN: 9780300244212Publisher: Yale University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/12/2022Description: An award-winning scholar’s sweeping history of American secularism, from Jefferson to Trump “Insights that are both illuminating and alarming.”—Linda Greenhouse, New York Review of Books “An essential book for understanding today’s culture wars. Sehat’s clear-eyed and elegant narrative will change how you think about our supposedly secular age.”—Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill In This Earthly Frame, David Sehat narrates the making of American secularism through its most prominent proponents and most significant detractors. He shows how its foundations were laid in the U.S. 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: David SehatGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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