Chosen land : how Christianity made America and Americans remade Christianity / Matthew Avery Sutton.
| Author/creator | Sutton, Matthew Avery, 1975- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : Basic Books, 2026. |
| Copyright Date | ©2026 |
| Description | viii, 644 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- Part I : Origins. The Christian invasion begins -- The city on the hill -- Varieties of Christian liberty -- The birth of revivalist Christianity -- Revolution -- Sanctifying the West -- Part II : Building a Christian empire. Disestablishing Christianity -- Reviving the new republic -- Liberated Christianity -- Creating American originals -- Building the moral establishment -- Part III : A nation in crisis. Going into the world -- Setting captives free -- An almost chosen people -- Reconstructing the nation -- Part IV : The challenges of the modern world. Immigrating faith -- Saving and purifying bodies -- Christianity, capitalism, and the signs of the times -- New Christianities for the new century -- Part V : Shaping the American century -- Making the world safe for democracy -- The rise of fundamentalism -- Relaunching culture wars -- The populist revolt -- Wars of faith -- Part VI : Unraveling the religious establishment. One nation under God -- Still seeking liberation -- Apocalypse now -- The terminus of the mainline -- Part VII : Remaking American Christianity -- The religious right -- Living at the close of the millennium -- The end of Christian America or a new beginning? -- Conclusion. |
| Abstract | "In the United States today, there is no faith more dominant than Christianity. In Chosen Land, historian Matthew Avery Sutton chronicles Christians' five-hundred-year endeavor to turn North America into their version of the kingdom of God, revealing the fruitful and dynamic entanglement between the history of America and the history of American Christianity. In the centuries after Christianity first arrived on American shores, colonizers and colonized from New England to Spanish California practiced many varieties of the faith. After the founding of the United States, the nation's lack of a state religion forced new and evolving strains of Christianity to battle for potential adherents, as they still do to this day. As American Christianity has bent, fractured, and adapted to changing times, Christian belief has shaped everything from the promise of Manifest Destiny to Ronald Reagan's approach to the Cold War, the rise of the Southern Lost Cause narrative to the triumphs of the civil rights movement. A landmark work of narrative synthesis tracing the faith's major figures and currents, Chosen Land confirms the unique place that American Christianity, always both steadfast and precarious, occupies at the center of our shared history"-- Dust jacket flap. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-617) and index. |
| Genre/form | Informational works. |
| Genre/form | Illustrated works. |
| Genre/form | Documents d'information. |
| Genre/form | Ouvrages illustrés. |
| LCCN | 2025037467 |
| ISBN | 9781541646339 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1541646339 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# | CIPO000333266 |
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| Joyner | New Books | BR515 .S775 2026 | ✔ Available | Want This? |