One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America — When Tradition Is Made
How does a political idea become so deeply embedded in public life that people eventually experience it as tradition?
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Using One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by historian Kevin M. Kruse, this Deep Dive investigates the systems behind the rise of modern American civil religion.
Kruse traces part of that transformation to the 1930s and 1940s, when corporate leaders and conservative clergy promoted what he calls “Christian libertarianism”—a fusion of individual salvation, free…
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