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The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention clogged the establishment of Christianity as a nationwide religion. However they cannot keep religious beliefs out of American politics. From election of 1800, when Federalist clergyman incurred that deist Thomas Jefferson was unfit to lead a "Christian nation," to today, when some Democrats want to adopt the so-called Spiritual Left to be able to contend with the Republicans and the Religious Right, religion has always been a part of American politics. In Religious beliefs in American Politics, Frank Lambert tells the fascinating history of the uneasy relationships between religious beliefs and politics from the founding to the 21st century. Lambert examines how antebellum Protestant unity was challenged by sectionalism as both North and South invoked spiritual justification; how Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Riches" competed with the anticapitalist "Social Gospel" during postwar industrialization; the way the civil rights movements was perhaps the most effective spiritual intervention in politics in American background; and the way the alliance between the Republican Get together and the Religious Right has, in many ways, became aware the founders' worries of religious-political electoral coalitions. In these and other circumstances, Lambert demonstrates religious beliefs became sectarian and partisan whenever it came into the political fray, and that spiritual agendas have always mixed with nonreligious ones. The booklet is posted by Princeton University Press.
