[Rezension von: Gaston, K. Healan, Imagining Judeo-Christian America]

I have long argued that when someone starts talking about the “Judeo-Christian tradition,” the most prudent response is to check the security of your pocketbook and carefully count your change. That person very likely is trying to pull something over on the unsuspecting. K. Healan Gaston’s remarkabl...

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Main Author: Balmer, Randall Herbert 1954- (Author)
Contributors: Gaston, K. Healan (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2021]
In: A journal of church and state
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 164-166
Review of:Imagining Judeo-Christian America (Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019) (Balmer, Randall Herbert)
Imagining Judeo-Christian America (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2019) (Balmer, Randall Herbert)
Imagining Judeo-Christian America (Chicago, Illinois ; : The University of Chicago Press, 2019) (Balmer, Randall Herbert)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Church / State / USA / Christianity / Judaism / Democracy
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
CA Christianity
KBQ North America
SA Church law; state-church law
Further subjects:B Book review
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Summary:I have long argued that when someone starts talking about the “Judeo-Christian tradition,” the most prudent response is to check the security of your pocketbook and carefully count your change. That person very likely is trying to pull something over on the unsuspecting. K. Healan Gaston’s remarkable work of intellectual history, Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy, suggests that although my suspicions may not be entirely misplaced, the story is a bit more complicated.
Gaston finds that the term Judeo-Christian may have appeared as early as 1841, but its genesis really lies in the work of...
ISSN:2040-4867
Contains:Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csaa100