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  title info:
    title: Is this God's country?
    sub title: religion and democracy in America
  title info:
    title: Religion and democracy in America
  name:
    name part: Audi, Robert
    name part: 1941-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 150 pages)
  abstract: "Our founding documents are one source of this idea-they certainly reinforce the idea that God has a special mission for America. "America the Beautiful," as the song calls it, is often conceived as a great representative of democracy, a citadel on a divinely blessed hill. The Declaration of Independence says we are "endowed by our Creator" with "unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1864 announces, "It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our national life another year... and vouchsafing to us in His mercy many and signal victories over the enemy, who is of our own household." In line with the divine endowment view, our currency displays "In God We Trust," and the Pledge of Allegiance calls us "one nation, under God." Many Americans also have a sense of America as having a mission, a kind of evangelism for democracy that is reminiscent of the Biblical commandment to make disciples of all nations. Our "founders"-authors of the Declaration and the Constitution-were mainly theists, and they considered the Bible the paradigm of divinely inspired writing and America the exemplar of an enduring union of Biblical ideals and democratic practices"--
  table of contents: Why think America is God's country? -- What is a religion? -- Religion as an engine of law-making -- Ethics and democracy : why should a religious nation tolerate irreligion? -- Public education : why shouldn't public education endorse the religious values of the nation? -- Religion, democracy, and economic liberty : why can't owners of a business run it as they like? -- Healthcare in America : why should government be allowed to override religious preferences? -- The civic responsibilities of citizens : do unto others : a moral and religious standard -- Can we integrate morality, politics, and religion? -- Civil discourse as a challenge for citizens and government -- Can America be Christian?
  note: Robert Audi.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Church and state
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Religion and state
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: Église et État
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Religion et État
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Political
  subject:
    topic: Christianity
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
  subject:
    topic: Church and state
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: Religion and state
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Politics & government
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Government
  classification: BR516 .A93 2024
  classification: 322/.10973
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    title info:
      title: Is this God's country?
    name:
      name part: Audi, Robert, 1941-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
    identifier: (DLC) 2023040470
    identifier: (OCoLC) 1404058620
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 231010
    record change date: 20260318170136.4
    record identifier: in00005699009
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng