TY - BOOK ID - 77865850 TI - Religion and American politics : from the colonial period to the 1980s PY - 1990 SN - 1280523980 0199729328 142376384X 9780199729326 9781280523984 019505881X PB - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Christianity and politics. KW - Church and state. KW - United States - Religion. KW - Christianity and politics KW - Christianity KW - Church and politics KW - Politics and Christianity KW - Politics and the church KW - Political science KW - History KW - Political aspects KW - United States KW - Church history. KW - History. KW - Church and state KW - religion KW - politics KW - America KW - history KW - the colonial and the Revolutionary periods KW - evangelical protestantism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77865850 AB - How do religion and politics interact in America? Why is it that at certain periods in American history, religious and political thought have followed a parallel course while at other times they have moved in entirely different directions? To what extent have minority perspectives challenged the majority position on the religious and political issues that impinge on each other? These are among the many important and fascinating questions examined in this book, the first thorough historical survey of the multi-layered connections between religion and politics in the United States. ER -