One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (739 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465049494 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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In short, he exposes the PR man behind the pious curtain.”E.J. One Nation Under God is an important book. A deft elaboration on the irony of the corporate involvement in the Christian America promotion a literary portrait taken during the last decades in which Protestant powers ran the show.'”HumanistThe author lays out a new mega-subdivision in our sprawling religious history. He hands us the agenda behind the Pledge of Allegiance, in God we trust,' and other cornerstones of American patriotism. As Kruse skillfully demonstrates, some of those roots took hold only yesterday.”The New RepublicA deftly detailed history of Christianity's service to capitalism in the United States.”Christianity TodayAn engaging and important book&rdqu
Their campaign for freedom under God” culminated in the election of their close ally Dwight Eisenhower in 1952.But this apparent triumph had an ironic twist. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Religious leaders rejected this lowest common denomination” public religion, leaving conservative political activists to champion it alone. Kruse reveals that the idea of Christian America” is an inventionand a relatively recent one at that.As Kruse argues, the belief that America is fundamentally and formally a Christian nation originated in the 1930s when businessmen enlisted religious activists in their fight against FDR's New Deal. Corporations from General Motors to Hilton Hotels bankrolled conservative clergymen, encouraging them to attack the Ne
it wasn't boring. I really got into it I thought this would be a book slamming the Religious Right. Actually that's what I hoped it would be. It wasn't. It was an educational thesis of religion in America. The story goes back to the turn of the last century, long before I thought this story would begin. It detailed the rise of several leaders over the years.It turned out to be a much more detailed history lesson than just a book ridiculing the right. Even thoug. Challenges many assumptions about religion in the US. David G A lot of the book was repetitive and boring. But enough was insightful and well researched to make reading this book worthwhile. You may not agree with everything the book says but it should make you think about some things our upbringing in america had led us to take for granted. I was shocked at the initial statistics that in 1850 only 16% of Americans belonged to a church. The US was not originally founded as a religiou. "Thoroughly researched background on how we got to the belief that we are a "Christian Nation"" according to X. Libris. One Nation, Under God, by Kevin M. Kruse, is a thoroughly researched and well-cited exposé of how many got to the belief that we are a “Christian nation.” It did not start with the founding of our country, when references to God were generic, even “ceremonially deistic” (as the author states), and used phrases like “Creator,” that could be embraced by multiple faith expressions.Th