Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation

by Amanda Porterfield

Book Overview

Americans have long acknowledged a deep connection between evangelical religion and democracy in the early days of the republic. This is a widely accepted narrative that is maintained as a matter of fact and tradition-and in spite of evangelicalism's more authoritarian and reactionary aspects.

In Conceived in Doubt, Amanda Porterfield challenges this standard interpretation of evangelicalism's relation to democracy and describes the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022627196X
• ISBN13: 9780226271965
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"