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  • Religion and American Politics

    From the Colonial Period to the Present

    Edited by Mark A. Noll, Luke E. Harlow ...
    How do religion and politics interact in America? How has that relationship changed over time? Why have American religious and political thought sometimes developed along a parallell course while at other times they have moved in opposite directions? These are among the many important and fascinating questions addressed in this volume. Originally published in 1990 as Religion and American Politics ... Read more

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  • Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830–1880

    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    This book sheds new light on the role of religion in the nineteenth-century slavery debates. Luke E. Harlow argues that the ongoing conflict over the meaning of Christian 'orthodoxy' constrained the political and cultural horizons available for defenders and opponents of American slavery. The central locus of these debates was Kentucky, a border slave state with a long-standing antislavery ... Read more

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    A History of the Religious Battles That Define America from Jefferson's Heresies to Gay Marriage Today

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