One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America, (Paperback)

from dickmanikowski

I hadn't realized how relatively recently the public expression of religion into the civic space happened. I grew up thinking that the "under God" phrase was a traditional part of the Pledge of Allegiance that we recited each morning at school. In reality, that phrase was incorporated when I was ...

from deusvitae

A highly researched investigation into the origins of American civic religion as currently manifest in its emphasis on the "Judeo-Christian" tradition and particularly the theme of "One Nation Under God." Kruse writes books with explosive subtitles with provocative theses that are laid out with...

from soraxtm

God I wanted to like this book. I suppose it was an enlightening bundle of facts. It has no point of view of course. Or rather it has an NPR point of view which is essentially the same. It stops way to soon (like nixon time for the well researched stuff) to be of any use today. If it could have k...

from dickmanikowski

I hadn't realized how relatively recently the public expression of religion into the civic space happened. I grew up thinking that the "under God" phrase was a traditional part of the Pledge of Allegiance that we recited each morning at school. In reality, that phrase was incorporated when I was ...

from deusvitae

A highly researched investigation into the origins of American civic religion as currently manifest in its emphasis on the "Judeo-Christian" tradition and particularly the theme of "One Nation Under God." Kruse writes books with explosive subtitles with provocative theses that are laid out with...