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Joseph Ellis in 2007. Joseph Ellis is an American professor of history who held an endowed Ford Foundation Chair at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.His previous works on the Founding Fathers had received several awards, including a 1997 National Book Award for American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson and the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History for his Founding Brothers: The ...
The Democratization of American Christianity (1989). excerpt and text search; Johnson, Paul, ed. African-American Christianity: Essays in History, (1994) complete text online free; Keller, Rosemary Skinner, and Rosemary Radford Ruether, eds. Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America (3 vol 2006)
Since the late 19th century, some right-wing Christians have argued that the United States of America is essentially Christian in origin. They preach American exceptionalism, oppose liberal scholars, and emphasize the Christian identity of many Founding Fathers. Critics argue that many of these Christian founders actually supported the ...
Rediscovering God in America was produced in 2008, with Newt and Callista Gingrich narrating [12] as the book illustrates the importance of "our Creator" to America's founders and their successors. Based on the New York Times bestseller, Rediscovering God in America , this documentary seeks to remind viewers that the United States is indeed ...
The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States has received favorable comments from Robert Wuthnow, [3] Leigh E. Schmidt and Edward C. Mallinckrodt, [3] Gary Laderman and Goodrich C. White, [3] Laurie Maffly-Kipp and John C. Danforth, [3] Anglican & Episcopal History, George Marsden, [4] Christianity Today, [4] Booklist, [4] and Library ...
F. LaGard Smith has been a career law professor, principally at Pepperdine University, and is the author of over 35 books on law, religion, and social issues. Smith, of Murfreesboro, TN, is the ...
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers is a book by historian of American religion David L. Holmes from the College of William & Mary. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9 ...
America’s founding motto was “E Pluribus Unum” (out of one many) but in the 1950s religious zealots changed that to “in God we trust” and inserted “under God” into the secular Pledge ...