Religion in American Politics: A Short History

by Franklin T. Lambert

Book Overview

The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion. But they could not keep religion out of American politics. From the election of 1800, when Federalist clergymen charged that deist Thomas Jefferson was unfit to lead a "Christian nation," to today, when some Democrats want to embrace the so-called Religious Left in order to compete with the Republicans and the Religious Right, religion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691146136
• ISBN13: 9780691146133
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"