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  • Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt | A Review by Donovan O. Schaefer April 21, 2022
    April 21, 2022 Ryrie, Alec ’s Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2019. Alec Ryrie’s Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt is a fascinating, original, and compelling historical study. A scholar of the Reformation, Ryrie’s interest is in the stirrings of atheism in the centuries leading up to and following 1517—the stories of ...
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  • Roundtable on American Babylon | Philip Gorski Responds February 11, 2022
    February 11, 2022 Editor’s Note: Over the past week, we have published a series of five responses – by Darren Dochuk, Kai Parker, Slavica Jakelić, Molly Farneth, and Paul Dafydd Jones – to Philip Gorski’s American Babylon: Christianity and Democracy Before and After Trump. In this post, Gorski offers a response to the responses. It is a ...
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  • No Way Back? | A Response by Paul Dafydd Jones February 10, 2022
    February 10, 2022 Editor’s Note: This is the fifth and final response to Philip Gorski’s American Babylon: Christianity and Democracy Before and After Trump. How did we get here? How did the “elective affinity” between Christianity and democracy in the United States devolve into antagonism and antipathy – so much so that the political identity of swathes of ...
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  • Democratic Virtue and the Fight for America’s Civil Religion | A Response by Molly Farneth February 9, 2022
    February 9, 2022 Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of five responses to Philip Gorski’s American Babylon: Christianity and Democracy Before and After Trump. Robert Bellah’s classic essay “Civil Religion in America” argues that there is, in the United States, a kind of political religion that “exists alongside rather clearly differentiated from” Christianity. ...
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  • Christianity, Nationalism, and Democratic Pluralism—Before, During, and After Populism | A Response by Slavica Jakelić February 8, 2022
    February 8, 2022 Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of five responses to Philip Gorski’s American Babylon: Christianity and Democracy Before and After Trump. Philip Gorski’s American Babylon considers Christianity and democracy as “complex social structures” (8) that have influenced and transformed one another through historical encounters and collisions to give rise to multiple theological, ...
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  • Babylon By Boom Bap | A Response by Kai Parker February 7, 2022
    February 7, 2022 Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of five responses to Philip Gorski’s American Babylon: Christianity and Democracy Before and After Trump. Philip Gorski’s American Babylon elucidates the relationship between Christianity and democracy in Western history. In its main text and footnotes, the book uses social scientific studies of racism in the ...
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