- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
-
1 Religion and Politics in America from the First Settlements to the Civil War -
2 Religion and Ideological Change in the American Revolution -
3 Rhetoric and Reality in the Early Republic: The Case of the Federalist Clergy -
4 Religion, Government, and Power in the New American Nation -
5 The Democratization of Christianity and the Character of American Politics -
6 Religion and Politics in the Antebellum North -
7 Ethnoreligious Political Behavior in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Voting, Values, Cultures -
8 Methodists, Politics, and the Coming of the American Civil War -
9 Slavery, Race, and Political Ideology in the White Christian South Before and After the Civil War -
10 Protestant Theological Tensions and Political Styles in the Progressive Period -
11 Roman Catholics and American Politics, 1900–1960: Altered Circumstances, Continuing Patterns -
12 Faith Transformed: Religion and American Politics from FDR to George W. Bush -
13 Evangelicalism Becomes Southern, Politics Becomes Evangelical: From FDR to Ronald Reagan -
14 Viewed in Black and White: Conservative Protestantism, Racial Issues, and Oppositional Politics -
15 Roman Catholics and American Politics, 1960–2004 -
16 Women, Politics, and Religion -
17 Contemporary Views from Abroad -
18 Canadian Counterpoint -
19 Quid Obscurum: The Changing Terrain of Church-State Relations -
20 Religion, Politics, and the Search for an American Consensus - Index
Protestant Theological Tensions and Political Styles in the Progressive Period
Protestant Theological Tensions and Political Styles in the Progressive Period
- Chapter:
- (p.225) 10 Protestant Theological Tensions and Political Styles in the Progressive Period
- Source:
- Religion and American Politics
- Author(s):
Robert T. Handy
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter shows how closely religious expectations fit with major political developments during the Progressive Era. This account of American religion at the turn of the twentieth century serves also as a summary of ecclesiastical developments at that time and as a base from which to interpret the startling changes of the twentieth century.
Keywords: Protestantism, Progressive Era, American religion, evangelical world
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
-
1 Religion and Politics in America from the First Settlements to the Civil War -
2 Religion and Ideological Change in the American Revolution -
3 Rhetoric and Reality in the Early Republic: The Case of the Federalist Clergy -
4 Religion, Government, and Power in the New American Nation -
5 The Democratization of Christianity and the Character of American Politics -
6 Religion and Politics in the Antebellum North -
7 Ethnoreligious Political Behavior in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Voting, Values, Cultures -
8 Methodists, Politics, and the Coming of the American Civil War -
9 Slavery, Race, and Political Ideology in the White Christian South Before and After the Civil War -
10 Protestant Theological Tensions and Political Styles in the Progressive Period -
11 Roman Catholics and American Politics, 1900–1960: Altered Circumstances, Continuing Patterns -
12 Faith Transformed: Religion and American Politics from FDR to George W. Bush -
13 Evangelicalism Becomes Southern, Politics Becomes Evangelical: From FDR to Ronald Reagan -
14 Viewed in Black and White: Conservative Protestantism, Racial Issues, and Oppositional Politics -
15 Roman Catholics and American Politics, 1960–2004 -
16 Women, Politics, and Religion -
17 Contemporary Views from Abroad -
18 Canadian Counterpoint -
19 Quid Obscurum: The Changing Terrain of Church-State Relations -
20 Religion, Politics, and the Search for an American Consensus - Index
