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Sacred Discourse and American Nationality

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Sacred Discourse and American Nationality

By: Eldon J. Eisenach

In the current political climate it is impossible not to speculate about the correlation between American national identity and religious beliefs. Sacred Discourse and American Nationality analyzes the role of religious rhetoric and politics. Eldon J. Eisenach explores this relationship, along with the interrelationship of political theory, political ideology, and political change in the story of American political life. By addressing “sacred stories” and American Progressivism, Sacred Discourseand American Nationality provides historical and current views on American national identity. This is the perfect book for scholars and students interested in American political development.

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1442217731

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The Next Religious Establishment

National Identity and Political Theology in Post-Protestant America

By: Eldon J. Eisenach

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The Next Religious Establishment

National Identity and Political Theology in Post-Protestant America

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America cannot survive without a common faith. History has taught us that our national identity and our political order require voluntary religious and civic organizations. Following the social, political, and cultural upheavals of the 1960s, Americans are now engaged in a struggle to determine the future of our nation's character and destiny. So argues prominent political theorist Eldon J. Eisenach in this brilliant and controversial new book. Contentious debates over multiculturalism, church-state relations, and immigration illustrate America's current identity crisis. Creating a common vision for America is no easy task but Eisenach describes how the moral and spiritual foundations of a new, coherent, American identity and faith are already emerging. As in the past, the next religious establishment's primary expression will be a political and cultural order that mediates and integrates personal, ethnic, religious, and civic identities. The Next Religious Establishment alerts readers to the changing landscape of America's identity and invites us to participate in its redefinition. This book will profoundly alter the way political theorists, intellectual historians, and theologians conceptualize America's past, present, and future.

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0847696197

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9780847696192

Narrative Power and Liberal Truth

Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, and Mill

By: Eldon J. Eisenach

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Narrative Power and Liberal Truth

Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, and Mill

By: Eldon J. Eisenach

Liberal political thought-from its origins in the seventeenth-century through today's rights discourse-is grounded in the ideal of the autonomous individual. As the theory holds, these individuals are 'born in freedom' from religious, political, social or economic obligations and then construct these systems through individual and collective choices. Over the past thirty years, however, this understanding of freedom has been challenged from a variety of perspectives. Eldon J. Eisenach has been at the forefront of that challenge, stressing the centrality of religious elements and assumptions in liberal writings that many scholars suppressed or ignored. In Narrative Power and Liberal Truth Eisenach brings together eleven of his previously published essays to demonstrate that many 'postmodernist' ideas of persons and freedom are already present within the tradition of liberal political philosophy and that liberalism itself is more capacious of human experience and meanings than modern critiques allow.

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0742507912

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The Lost Promise of Progressivism

With a New Preface by the Author

By: Eldon J. Eisenach

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The Lost Promise of Progressivism

With a New Preface by the Author

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Long before the current calls for national service, civic reponsibility, and the restoration of community values, the Progressives initiated a remarkably similar challenge. Eldon Eisenach traces the evolution of this powerful national movement from its theoretical origins through its dramatic rise and sudden demise, and shows why their philosophy still speaks to us with such eloquence. Eisenach analyzes how and why, between 1885 and World War I, progressive political ideas conquered almost every cultural and intellectual bastion except constitutional law and dominated every major national institution except the courts and party system. Progressives, he demonstrates, were especially influential as a force in American politics, higher education, and the media. They created wideranging professional networks that functioned like a "hidden national government" to counter a federal government they deeply distrusted. They viewed the university as their national "Church"-the main repository and disseminator of values they espoused. They established truly national journals for a national audience. And they drew much support from women's rights advocates and other highly vocal movements of their time. Permeated with an evangelical Protestant vision of the future, progressive thought was an integral part of the national discourse for nearly three decades. But, as Eisenach reveals, at the very moment of its triumph it disintegrated as both a coherent theory and a viable public doctrine. With the election in 1912 of Woodrow Wilson, the movement reached its peak, but thereafter lost its momentum and force. Its precipitous decline was accelerated by world war and by the rise of New Deal liberalism. By the end of the Depression it had disappeared as an influential player in American public life. In the decades that followed, the Progressive mantle went unclaimed. Conservatives blamed the Progressives for the rise of the welfare state and many liberals cringed at their theological and imperialist rhetoric. Eisenach, however, argues that we still have much to learn about and from the Progressives. By enlarging our understanding of their thought, we greatly increase our understanding of an America whose national institutions-political, cultural, educational, religious, professional, economic, and journalistic-are all largely the product of this thinking. In other words, their ideas are still very much with us.

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University Press of Kansas

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The Lost Promise of Progressivism

With a New Preface by the Author

By: Eldon J. Eisenach

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With a New Preface by the Author

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Narrative Power and Liberal Truth

Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, and Mill

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Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, and Mill

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The Next Religious Establishment

National Identity and Political Theology in Post-Protestant America

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Book's by Eldon J. Eisenach

Sacred Discourse and American Nationality

Sacred Discourse and American Nationality

The Next Religious Establishment

The Next Religious Establishment

Narrative Power and Liberal Truth

Narrative Power and Liberal Truth

The Lost Promise of Progressivism

The Lost Promise of Progressivism

The Lost Promise of Progressivism

The Lost Promise of Progressivism

Narrative Power and Liberal Truth

Narrative Power and Liberal Truth

The Next Religious Establishment

The Next Religious Establishment

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