American Religious History Roundup
From Life magazine, May 18, 1959. Jennifer Schuessler, "A Religious Legacy, With Its Leftward Tilt, Is Reconsidered," New York Times , July 23, 2013 (Got a shout out in this piece about another blog I help edit, Religion in American History . Hooray!) For decades the dominant story of postwar American religious history has been the triumph of evangelical Christians. . . . But now a growing cadre of historians of religion are reconsidering the legacy of those faded establishment Methodists, Presbyterians and Episcopalians, tracing their enduring influence on the movements for human rights and racial justice, the growing “spiritual but not religious” demographic and even the shaded moral realism of Barack Obama — a liberal Protestant par excellence, some of these academics say. >>> James P. Byrd, "Was the American Revolution a holy war?" Washington Post , July 6, 2013 Holy war can seem like something that happened long ago or that happens far away — the Cr...