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By Finbarr Curtis

Americans love non secular freedom. Few agree, notwithstanding, approximately what they suggest through either “religion” or “freedom.” instead of get to the bottom of those debates, Finbarr Curtis argues that there's no such factor as spiritual freedom. missing any constant content material, non secular freedom is a transferring and malleable rhetoric hired for a number of reasons. whereas americans frequently ponder freedom because the correct to be left on my own, the loose workout of faith works to provide, problem, distribute, and regulate assorted different types of social power.

The e-book lines shifts within the proposal of non secular freedom in the United States from the second one nice Awakening, to the fiction of Louisa may possibly Alcott and the movies of D.W. Griffith, via William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes Trial, and as much as debates over the Tea social gathering to illuminate how Protestants have imagined person and nationwide kinds of identification. A bankruptcy on Al Smith considers how the 1st Catholic presidential nominee of an immense social gathering challenged Protestant perspectives concerning the separation of church and nation. relocating later within the 20th century, the publication analyzes Malcolm X’s extra sweeping rejection of Christian freedom in desire of radical different types of innovative switch. the ultimate chapters learn how modern controversies over clever layout and the claims of organizations to workout faith are on the leading edge of efforts to shift regulatory energy clear of the kingdom and towards deepest associations like households, church buildings, and companies. The volume argues that spiritual freedom is produced inside of competing visions of governance in a self-governing country.

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