05345cam a2200589 i 4500 112215 112215 BJBSDDR 20230411090102.0 ta 150323s2015 nyua b 001 0ceng 9781594204852 (hardback) 1594204853 (hardback) DLC eng DLC spa pcc n-us--- 002 E 176 K62r 2015 261.7 23 HIS036040 HIS036000 REL033000 bisacsh Kittelstrom, Amy autor. The religion of democracy : seven liberals and the American moral tradition / Amy Kittelstrom. New York : Penguin Press, 2015. 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier The Penguin history of American life Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: An American Reformation -- John Adams, Reformation Christian : The Protestant Moral Ethic and the Spirit of Independence -- Mary Moody Emerson, Natural Christian : The Culture of Lived Virtue and the Fight Against Bigotry -- William Ellery Channing, Practical Christian : Universal Inner Divinity and Self-Culture -- William James, Practical Idealist : The Man of the World and the Method of Nature -- Thomas Davidson, Liberal : Freedom, Fellowship, and the Socialization of Self-Culture -- William Mackintire Salter, New Liberal : Ethical Culture and Social Progress -- Jane Addams, Social Democrat : Universal Needs and the Cooperative Road to International Peace -- Conclusion: An American Century? "A history of religion's role in the American liberal tradition through the eyes of seven transformative thinkers. Today we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation's founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side is said to be liberal. But the role of religion in American politics has always been far more nuanced and complex than today's debates would suggest and closer to the heart of American intellectual life than is commonly understood. American democracy was intended by its creators to be more than just a political system, and in The Religion of Democracy, historian Amy Kittelstrom shows how religion and democracy have worked together as universal ideals in American culture--and as guides to moral action and the social practice of treating one another as equals who deserve to be free. The first people in the world to call themselves 'liberals' were New England Christians in the early republic, for whom being liberal meant being receptive to a range of beliefs and values. The story begins in the mid-eighteenth century, when the first Boston liberals brought the Enlightenment into Reformation Christianity, tying equality and liberty to the human soul at the same moment these root concepts were being tied to democracy. The nineteenth century saw the development of a robust liberal intellectual culture in America, built on open-minded pursuit of truth and acceptance of human diversity. By the twentieth century, what had begun in Boston as a narrow, patrician democracy transformed into a religion of democracy in which the new liberals of modern America believed that where different viewpoints overlap, common truth is revealed. The core American principles of liberty and equality were never free from religion but full of religion. The Religion of Democracy re-creates the liberal conversation from the eighteenth century to the twentieth by tracing the lived connections among seven thinkers through whom they knew, what they read and wrote, where they went, and how they expressed their opinions--from John Adams to William James to Jane Addams; from Boston to Chicago to Berkeley. Sweeping and ambitious, The Religion of Democracy is a lively narrative of quintessentially American ideas as they were forged, debated, and remade across our history"-- Provided by publisher. Politicians United States Biography. 80 Intellectuals United States Biography. 81 Christians United States Biography. 82 Liberalism United States History. 83 Democracy United States History. 84 Christianity and politics United States History. 85 Tribunales Estados Unidos 86 HISTORY / United States / General. bisacsh 87 Crisis financiera Estados Unidos 88 Políticos estadounidenses Historia. 5701 Liberalismo Historia Estados Unidos 2551 Democracia Estados Unidos. 2833 United States Politics and government. 89 United States Intellectual life. 90 United States Religion. 91 United States Moral conditions. 92 Estados Unidos Política y gobierno 2202 Cover image 9781594204852.jpg 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg BK lcc YSL 0 0 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2018-08-27 0 002 E 176 K62r 2015 00000126356 2018-08-27 00:00:00 1 2018-08-27 BK