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Freedom in Religion or Freedom from Religion
The Great American Cultural War between Traditionalists and Secularists
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2010
Summary
The first decade of the twenty-first century finds the American people divided along a great, half-century-old fault line. On one side stand Traditionalists who understand human existence and glory (joys and sorrows) as defined by a western religious heritage, an existence circumscribed by tragedy. On the other side stand Secularists who reject the western tradition and its moral absolutes (even though they continue to espouse values that arose out of the West) and look forward to a world of ever-expanding personal freedom from societal restraints and old human weaknesses, a world wherein mankind will finally achieve total well-being For fifty years, Traditionalists and Secularists have been arguing over religion and their very different understandings of the meaning of freedom. Does the old religion, the western tradition as manifested in the United States, sustain and strengthen freedom or does it circumscribe freedom so much that religion destroys freedom?
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Edition
1/2010
Copyright Year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-5049-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-5050-2
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
58
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Introduction No access
Freedom in Religion: Contemporary American Traditionalists’ Understanding of National Culture and Government No access Pages 1 - 14
Freedom from Religion: America’s Newest Left, the Secular Ideologues, and Their Vision of a New National Culture and Government No access Pages 15 - 50
