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A GodShaped Nation: Five Hundred Years Of Religion In America
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A Kaleidoscopic History That Shows How The Quest To Worship Freely Became One Of The NationS Most Vexing Tensions, Shaping Life For Believers And Nonbelievers Alikeever Since Conquistadores Claimed Taino Land In The Name Of Their Catholic God And New England Puritans Formed Their Strictly Protestant City On A Hill, Religion Has Been Central To American Life. Even As Some Found Religious FreedomRhode Island Welcomed The Quakers, Jews, And Baptists That Massachusetts Expelled As DissentersIndigenous People And Africans Forced Into Slavery Struggled To Protect Their Religious Practices. With The Constitutional Separation Of Church And State, It Fell To The American People To Decide: Would They Sharpen ReligionS Formidable Powers Of Division, Or Reimagine Its Creative Possibilities?In A GodShaped Nation, Brook WilenskyLanford Follows This Essential American Tension From First Contact Through The 2024 Election. This Is An Expansive History Of Extraordinary Religious Questions, Told Through The Ordinary People Who Grappled With Them. It Is A Story Of Defiance: Anne Hutchinson, Preaching Against Puritan Clergy; Reform Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise Serving SoftShell Crab To His Kosher Guests At An 1883 Banquet; And Wovoka, A Paiute Man Who Envisioned The Ghost Dance Movement, Which Persisted In The Face Of Violent Government Repression At Wounded Knee. It Is Also A Story Of Community: Millerites Waiting Together In Vain For JesusS Return On A Rainy October Night In 1844; Chinese Immigrants Bringing Daoist And Buddhist Gods To Their California Temples; Mormons Pushing Westward To Build Their New Zion In Utah. And In The Last Fifty Years, It Has Been A Story Of Muscular Political Power, As The Religious Right Has Sought To Shape The Present And Paint The Past In Its Own Image.At A Moment When Religion Penetrates Even The Most Secular Aspects Of American Life, Understanding Its History Is More Essential Than Ever Before. It Is In History That The Very Human Work Of Religion Happens, WilenskyLanford Shows Us, And In Ordinary Time That Even The Most CarvedInStone Tenets Can And Do Change.
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