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Zusatztext a wide-ranging and thoughtful meditation ... This book deserves an honored place among the oeuvre of work by political scientists and historians on the jeremiad. Informationen zum Autor Andrew R. Murphy is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Bruswick. He is the author of Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America, the co-editor of Religion, Politics, and the American Identity: New Directions, New Controversies, and the editor of The Political Writings of William Penn. Klappentext America's supposed moral decline from an imagined golden age, and the threat of divine punishment for the sin of straying from the path of righteousness, have been consistent themes in its political and religious rhetoric. In Prodigal Nation, Andrew Murphy investigates the jeremiad's historical roots and probes the ways in which it continues to illuminate themes and tensions in American social and political life. Zusammenfassung "Original and wide-ranging, Murphy's discerning and important study is another reminder that America is 'the nation with the soul of a church.'"-Journal of American History "A wide-ranging and thoughtful meditation on how the theo-political stories we Americans tell ourselves resonate with and sometimes even create the communities we inhabit. This book deserves an honored place among the oeuvre of work by political scientists and historians on the jeremiad."-- Politics and Religion"A significant contribution to the historical account of the role of religion in American politics." --Perspectives on Politics "Prodigal Nation is a careful account of how theologies function politically and deserves attention from political scientists, political theologians, American historians, and others interested in the interface of religion and culture."--Religious Studies Review "This highly original and wonderfully written analysis will be invaluable to anyone interested in the meaning of America." --Harry S. Stout, author of The New England Soul and Upon the Altar of the Nation"A brilliant analysis of the American jeremiad. Elegant, powerful, hopeful, and wise - Prodigal Nation is required reading for anyone who wishes to understand the fitful history of the American spirit." --James A. Morone, author of Hellfire Nation and The Democratic Wish Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: The American Jeremiad Part I: Three American Jeremiads Chapter 2: Puritan New England and the Foundations of the American Jeremiad Chapter 3: Decline, Slavery, and War: The Jeremiad in Antebellum and Civil War America Chapter 4: Taking America Back: The Christian Right Jeremiad Part II: The Jeremiad in American Culture Chapter 5: Competing Jeremiads Chapter 6: Constructing a Usable Past Chapter 7: The Jeremiad and the Culture Wars Chapter 8: The Past, Present, and Future of the American Jeremiad ...
