One nation, under gods : a new American history / Peter Manseau.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: 469 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780316100038
  • 031610003X
  • 9780316100014
  • 0316100013
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 200.973 23
LOC classification:
  • BL2525 .M357 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Unearthing history -- A meeting of the gods -- An American jihad -- Strange opinions in the City on a Hill -- Blasphemy -- Witches and Indians -- Call-and-response -- Longhouse nation -- Awakenings -- The Yiddish code -- Twenty gods or none -- O people of America! -- Krishna's sisters -- A tale of two prophets -- "The heathen Chinee" -- "Go ahead, keep your whiskers" -- War prayers -- The immortality racket -- City on a Hill, revisited.
Summary: Thomas Jefferson collected books on all religions and required that the brand new Library of Congress take his books, since Americans needed to consider the "twenty gods or no god" he famously noted were revered by his neighbors. Looking at the Americans who believed in these gods, Manseau fills in America's story of itself, from the persecuted "witches" at Salem and who they really were, to the persecuted Buddhists in WWII California, from spirituality and cults in the '60s to the recent presidential election where both candidates were for the first time non-traditional Christians.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-458) and index.

Introduction: Unearthing history -- A meeting of the gods -- An American jihad -- Strange opinions in the City on a Hill -- Blasphemy -- Witches and Indians -- Call-and-response -- Longhouse nation -- Awakenings -- The Yiddish code -- Twenty gods or none -- O people of America! -- Krishna's sisters -- A tale of two prophets -- "The heathen Chinee" -- "Go ahead, keep your whiskers" -- War prayers -- The immortality racket -- City on a Hill, revisited.

Thomas Jefferson collected books on all religions and required that the brand new Library of Congress take his books, since Americans needed to consider the "twenty gods or no god" he famously noted were revered by his neighbors. Looking at the Americans who believed in these gods, Manseau fills in America's story of itself, from the persecuted "witches" at Salem and who they really were, to the persecuted Buddhists in WWII California, from spirituality and cults in the '60s to the recent presidential election where both candidates were for the first time non-traditional Christians.

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