Religion & Republic

In recent years, America's status as a "Christian nation" has become an incredibly vexed question. This is not simply a debate about America's present, or even its future-it has become a debate about its past. Some want to rewrite America's history as having always been highly secular in order to ensure a similar future; others seek to reframe the American founding as a continuation of medieval Christendom in the hopes of reviving America's religious identity today. In this book, Miles Smith off