I was up in Cambridge last week to talk about “Imagining Judeo-Christian America,” a terrific new book by Harvard Divinity School teacher Healan Gaston. As someone who began writing about the Judeo-Christian concept in American religion and politics in the early 80’s, I’m considered the old man of this little field of study.
With an awesome array of examples, Gaston traces the history of the concept from its 19th-century origins up to the present. Her central analytical contribution is to differentiate its “pluralist” from its “exceptionalist” usage.
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