Awash in a Sea of Faith (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jon Butler
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Social history
- Time of Work: The early seventeenth century to the Civil War
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Cotton Mather, James Blair, George Whitefield, William Tennent, Sr., Gilbert Tennent, John Tennent, William Tennent, Jr., Charles Tennent, James Madison, Richard Allen, Abraham Lincoln
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Religion and spirituality
- Subjects: Magic or magicians, Politics, Slavery or slaves, Religion, Social life, Christianity, Symbolism, Clergy, Occultism or the occult, Puritans or Puritanism, Astrology or astrologers
- Locales: United States
In a plea for the continuation of religious establishmentarianism in Germany, Ernst Troeltsch, one of Heidelberg’s leading intellectuals, argued in 1912 that American-style separation would lead to the death of continuing Christian influence in German culture. In America, he observed, one finds “a domination of religion in social life which is astonishing to us Germans, and a removal of religion from all political carryings-on which is even more unfamiliar to us. For us, on the contrary, religion is virtually without significance in society, but yet, through union with certain...
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