American Babylon

Auteurs

• Philip S. Gorski

Paramètres

• 132 pages
• 5 heures de lecture

• Histoire
• Nonfiction

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In European history, the relationship between Christianity and democracy has often been ambivalent. In US history, it has usually been complementary. But the role of white evangelicals in the election of Donald Trump suggests that American Christianity may now be taking an authoritarian turn. American Babylon is a historical sociology of this political moment. It explains how and when Christianity and democracy have and have not gone together over the course of European history; why they have generally been complementary for most of America's history and why that complementarity is gradually giving way to antagonism. The author then explores why this antagonism is threat not only to American democracy but also to American Christianity; and why conservative Christians and secular progressives must learn to respect one another again.

Achat du livre

• Année de publication: 2020
• Reliure: (rigide)