God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide

by Thomas Albert Howard

Book Overview

Since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the United States and Western Europe's paths to modernity have diverged sharply with respect to religion. In short, Americans have maintained much friendlier ties with traditional forms of religion than their European counterparts. What explains this transatlantic religious divide?
Accessing the topic though nineteenth and early twentieth-century European commentary on the United States, Thomas Albert...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199565511
• ISBN13: 9780199565511
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"