God and the Atlantic
America, Europe, and the Religious Divide
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 January 2013
- ISBN 9780199671304
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 215x144x14 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The first major work of cultural and intellectual history devoted to the subject of the transatlantic religious divide. Using nineteenth and early twentieth century commentary on the subject, Howard helps us understand why Americans have maintained friendlier ties with traditional forms of religion than their European counterparts.
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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 Howard argues that an 'Atlantic gap' in religious matters has deep and complex historical roots, and enduringly informs some strands of European disapprobation of the United States. While exploring in the first chapters 'Old World' disquiet toward the young republic's religious dynamics, the book turns in the final chapters and focuses on more constructive European assessments of the United States. Acknowledging the importance of Alexis de Tocqueville for the topic, Howard argues that a widespread overreliance on Tocqueville as interpreter of America has had a tendency to overshadow other noteworthy European voices. Two underappreciated figures here receive due attention: the Protestant Swiss-German church historian, Philip Schaff, and the French Catholic philosopher, Jacques Maritain.
While the transatlantic religious divide has received commentary from journalists and sociologists in recent decades, this is the first major work of cultural and intellectual history devoted to the subject.
beautifully written, clearly structured, and argued and it contains a mine of material
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I
The Traditionalist Critique: A "Ranting and Raving Tumult "
The Secularist Critique: "A Certain Backwardness of Thought "
II
Philip Schaff: Herr Doktor Professor in the American Frontier
Jacques Maritain: A French Thomist and the New World
Conclusion: The Double Helix and the Dialectic
