Sacvan Bercovitch
Books by Sacvan Bercovitch
“…oftentimes, people will talk about the United States and say, ‘Oh, it has a Puritanical streak to it’. That was what Berkovitch was partly responding to when he wrote this book, asking whether that was true, whether we Americans did have a knee-jerk puritanical response to things. There’s this sort of mythos about America that is grounded in the country’s Puritan origins in New England—you know, the first Thanksgiving and everything. There is a romance attached to that story. You don’t have anything comparable related to the origins of Virginia, or the beginnings of colonial New York, or the deep colonial South. There’s nothing there that people use as a cultural or historical touchstone—just Plymouth Rock.” Read more...
The best books on Religion in US Politics
John H. Smith, Historian
Interviews where books by Sacvan Bercovitch were recommended
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The Puritan Origins of the American Self
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When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture
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American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism
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American Fascists: The Christian Right and War in America
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Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America.
by Darren Dochuk
The best books on Religion in US Politics, recommended by John H. Smith
The best books on Religion in US Politics, recommended by John H. Smith
Religion is deeply bound up with politics in the United States, in a way that is unique in the developed world and among democratic countries. Here Professor John H. Smith, a historian at Texas A&M University, looks at the historical roots of this phenomenon and its contemporary significance.
