[Rezension von: Gaston, K. Healan, Imagining Judeo-Christian America]

I have long argued that when someone starts talking about the “Judeo-Christian tradition,” the most prudent response is to check the security of your pocketbook and carefully count your change. That person very likely is trying to pull something over on the unsuspecting. K. Healan Gaston’s remarkabl...

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1. VerfasserIn: Balmer, Randall Herbert 1954- (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Gaston, K. Healan (VerfasserIn des Bezugswerks)
Medienart: Elektronisch Review
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Oxford University Press [2021]
In: A journal of church and state
Jahr: 2021, Band: 63, Heft: 1, Seiten: 164-166
Rezension von:Imagining Judeo-Christian America (Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019) (Balmer, Randall Herbert)
Imagining Judeo-Christian America (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2019) (Balmer, Randall Herbert)
Imagining Judeo-Christian America (Chicago, Illinois ; : The University of Chicago Press, 2019) (Balmer, Randall Herbert)
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Kirche / Staat / USA / Christentum / Judentum / Demokratie
RelBib Classification:BH Judentum
CA Christentum
KBQ Nordamerika
SA Kirchenrecht; Staatskirchenrecht
weitere Schlagwörter:B Rezension
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Zusammenfassung:I have long argued that when someone starts talking about the “Judeo-Christian tradition,” the most prudent response is to check the security of your pocketbook and carefully count your change. That person very likely is trying to pull something over on the unsuspecting. K. Healan Gaston’s remarkable work of intellectual history, Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy, suggests that although my suspicions may not be entirely misplaced, the story is a bit more complicated.
Gaston finds that the term Judeo-Christian may have appeared as early as 1841, but its genesis really lies in the work of...
ISSN:2040-4867
Enthält:Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csaa100