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Wills, Garry, 1934-
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United States -- Church history.
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Head and heart : Ame...
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Head and heart : American Christianities / Garry Wills.
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Wills, Garry, 1934-
New York : Penguin Press, 2007.
Subjects
United States -- Church history.
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007012631.html
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0806/2007012631-b.html
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0806/2007012631-d.html
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9781594201462 :
1594201463
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626 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Pre-Enlightenment religion -- Puritans -- Mary Dyer must die -- The Puritan psyche -- The Puritan conscience -- The Puritan intellect -- Preludes to Enlightenment -- Precursors : Samuel Sewall, Roger Williams -- Spur to Enlightenment : the Great Awakening -- Enlightened religion -- Unitarians -- Against the awakening -- Quakers -- Deists -- Disestablishment -- Beyond tolerance -- Jefferson's statute -- Madison's Remonstrance -- First Amendment -- Madisonian separation -- The romantic era -- Transcendentalism -- Schism in New England -- Emersonians -- Religion of the heart -- The second Great Awakening -- Schisms over slavery -- God of battles -- Religion in the Gilded Age -- Culture wars -- Doomsday or progress? -- Second-coming theology -- Second-coming politics -- The Social Gospel -- Reversals -- Evangelicals riding high -- Evangelicals brought low -- Religion in a radical time -- Religious nation -- Euphoria -- Great religious truce -- The rights revolution -- Evangelicals counterattack -- The Karl Rove era -- Faith-based government -- Ecumenical Karl -- Life after Rove -- Epilogue : Separation not suppression.
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An examination of Christianity's place in American life through history, from the Puritans to the administration of George W. Bush. The struggle within American Christianity, historian Wills argues, has been between the head and the heart: reason and emotion, Enlightenment and Evangelism. 18th century America saw a religious revolution--an Enlightenment culture emerged whose hallmarks were tolerance for other faiths and a belief that religion was best divorced from political institutions. Wills shows how radical a departure this was, and shows the steps by which church-state separation was enshrined in the Constitution. He shows a repeating pattern in our history: a cooling of popular religious fervor, followed by an explosion in evangelical activity--generally during times of social transformation and anxiety--and then a backlash. Wills's message is to be vigilant against the triumph of emotions over reason, but to know that the tension between them is necessary, inevitable, and unending.--From publisher description.
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