American Kairos : Washington National Cathedral and the new civil religion /

A history of Washington National Cathedral and the theory of an American civil religion. In 1792, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the first city planner of Washington, D.C., introduced the idea of a "great church for national purposes." Unlike L'Enfant's plans for the White House,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Crosby, Richard Benjamin (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2023].
Subjects:	Washington National Cathedral (Washington, D.C.) > History. Cathedrals > Washington (D.C.) > History. Civil religion > United States > History. United States > Religion. United States > Politics and government. ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious. RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State.

Table of Contents:

Pierre L'Enfant's great church for national purposes
Henry Yates Satterlee's Westminster Abbey
The national church in an age of nativism
Francis B. Sayre the Prophet and Mary Edgar Budde the Pastor
Philip Hubert Frohman's fourth dimension : a close reading of Washington National Cathedral
Martin Luther King Jr.'s sacred time
The Bush Presidents' rock of religious faith
Civil seership : the revelatory project of Cameron Partridge and Gene Robinson; or, the revelation of Matthew Shepard
Conclusion. American Kairos.