The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life
Abstract
The Secular Revolution is an examination of the means by which the university as an institution enabled the secularization of America. From a dominant Protestant establishment in the mid‐1800s, science, psychology, law, journalism, medicine and biology authorized the secular revolution. A rising capitalism, a continuing immigrant population increasing the power of cities, also played important roles in this radical shift. Beyond analysis, the problem of this book is strategic, attempting virtually to undo the secular revolution, and to return America to its rightful scientific, political, and religious form.
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Citation
Sarles, H. (2004), "The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life", On the Horizon, Vol. 12 No. 2, pp. 66-73. https://doi.org/10.1108/10748120410544144
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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