Today these moral arguments continue, influencing the debate over everything from abortion to foreign policy.Written with passion and deep insight, Hellfire Nation tells the story of a brawling, raucous, religious people. Morone shows how fears of sin and dreams of virtue defined the
| Title | : | Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History |
| Author | : | James A. Morone |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (404 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300105177 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 592Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-8 |
| Language | : | English |
Today these moral arguments continue, influencing the debate over everything from abortion to foreign policy.Written with passion and deep insight,
Hellfire Nation tells the story of a brawling, raucous, religious people. Morone shows how fears of sin and dreams of virtue defined the shape of the nation. . From the Puritan founding to the present day, the American story is a moral epic, James Morone says, and while moral fervor has inspired the dream of social justice it has also ignited our fiercest social conflicts.From the colonial era to the present day, Americans embraced a Providential mission, tangled with devils, and aspired to save the world. This insightful new conceptualization of American political history demonstrates that—despite the clear separation of church and state—religion lies at the heart of American politics. Moral fervor ignited our fiercest social conflicts—but it also moved dreamers to remake the nation in the name of social justice. Moral crusades inspired abolition, woman suffrage, and civil rights, even as they led Americans to hang witches, enslave Africans, and ban liquor
The narrative first traces the Victorian impulse--arising from Puritan fears of witchcraft and debauchery--as it inspires the fervor of nineteenth-century abolitionists and twentieth-century prohibitionists. From Booklist Almost 60 years after Gunnar Myrdal argued that America's distinctive moral consciousness might prove "the salvation of mankind," Morone finds that same characteristic at least as likely to legitimate invidious discrimination as to inspire utopian strivings. Though a partisan of Social Gospel politics and a critic of Victorian conservatism, Morone illuminates the complexities in both impulses. Readers trying to peer into the nation's post-9/11 moral future will thank Morone for clarifying the path along which righteous fervo
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